For example, adding a back deck, garden area and dog washing shed in a few of my properties to ensure I attract the best tenants and they appreciate living in my property (and don’t leave).

I'm sure I can get the deal done and these are garden style 3-4 story walk up style which are the low end of market rate 

Pretty much: paint, new high quality impact windows, new open kitchens, upgrade to the bathrooms, new central and efficient AC units, great looking garden, and new fence.

I can deduct 30% of utilities, gardening expenses, property tax, etc. against rental income of the new space3.

My wife and I just got done rehabbing a brick two flat in Ravenswood Gardens.

They ran a garden hose for the washer and plugged the dryer into the stove's 220 outlet.

Investment Info:

Condo buy & hold investment.

Purchase price: $80,500

Cash invested: $20,000

This was my husband and I's first investment property that we purchased in 2017. We just fully renova...

I would like to move to Austin (as there are many like-minded entrepreneurs there) and want to live on a ranch with 2+ acres, so I can raise goats, chickens, and have fruit and vegetable garden. 

We put on tyvek suits and opened the windows that worked , broke the glass on those that didnt , threw fans in the windows for 4 days before we went back in .( neighbors complained about the smell and the closest house was 50 ft away )  We made a pump system and used a new plastic trash can and sprayed with a garden hose over 100 gallons of a bleach , soap and water over floors , ceilings and walls just to sanitize as best we could . 

So in your example being in Houston, this would be like rather than being fully paid off with a Garden Oaks investment house, you're putting 60% down on two heights houses + $15-20k of reno in each.