Go back in a couple days and do the same thing.As far as the yard, clean out any piles of leaves or brush.  

While I agree with a lot of what the article talks about, I think the author was painting with a very broad brush.

My painter simply brushed and vacuumed it and then put on at least two coats of paint.

@Stan Chigintsev   Reits are like stocks they can go up or down.. notes are notes.. they are static they don't go up they don't go down.REits are liquid  notes are not...

brush your teeth.

They're rather static during downturns compared to some of the cities mentioned in options 1b and 3. 

Almost everybody on first brush with residential real estate thinks they’ve come across a “great deal”.

Spray, not brush.

I cannot speak to what # of unique visitors you need to convert, but I have recently heard a lot more people contending that a blog is a much more effective way to drive / attract traffic because the search engines are sensitive to new, relevant material and how often it is added.The way it was explained to me is that a personal website - outside of adding a listing here or there and having RSS feeds from different site - is for the most part static.

plus it's heavy scrub brush with a few inches water, while there seems to be miles of forest to either side.