Sue K. the life span of carpet is subjective, if a tenant trashed carpet in 6 years they didnt take care of it, I just did a flip that was built in 2003 (13 years ago) with original carpet, we had the carpets cleaned, and they were just fine,  damage is damage, a careless tenant needs to pay for damage to your property.  

., growth over a 10+ year span or just looking at recent growth (1-2 years) to indicate a potentially increasing/decreasing market?

They have shorter life spans, a higher probability of a tenant electrocuting themselves when screwing around under the sink, and can create quite a liability in a house with kids.

And it can take several sets of tenants to clean out the dead wood if you do it in drips and drabs.So much of attracting good tenants comes from good word of mouth that it's more expensive (especially if you life span is worth anything to you) to go the cheap way by trying to move the old tenants out one by one.

Just like roof's, furnaces, and water heaters, leach fields have a life span.  

My own house isn't spick and span either, plus I used to be a renter.

If I were to submit a newer utilities request to cover 15th to 30th, I am afraid the consecutive changeover within a span of 15 days will get messed up. 

Hi Dave,No I was with all facets of Dominos Pizza over a long span of time.

If they gave you verbal acceptance it is not enough to constitute an agreement either, as a written contract is necessary for all contracts that span a year or more (from my local interpretation of contract law).

Those previous decades of higher income people bidding values up is why it's so expensive, you're basically hitching your wagon to that pattern spanning decades (& the model here isn't "up and coming," it's "it went up, and there it's going, into the stratosphere" -- past and present tense, not speculative future tense).For this "appreciation max, screw cashflow!"