(Food, clothing, Automobiles, etc.)4) I would never take advantage of someone, however  the term "stealing equity" is just silly.

A lot of cities & towns offer rebates for upgrading things like toilets, shower heads, clothes washers etc to low flow energy efficient items which make the initial cost of replacing them easier on your wallet. https://www.energystar.gov/rebate-finder

For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.

You can make minor adjustments based on the type of appliances (dishwasher, clothes washer and dryer, air conditioning, etc.) and the size of the rental.

These families drive nice cars, take vacations, go out to dinner multiple times a week, have name brand clothing and the list goes on.

I think we might be cut from the same cloth. :-)   I didn't want to say anything there... too strong of opinions.

I'm someone who has sold close to a million dollars of used clothing, at 70% margins, as a home based business. 

There are a lot of clothes that still have the tags on them, which will go to charity. 

You walk in and clothing store after clothing store.

The inspector took a soot tack cloth and showed me where the smoke had risen up into the attic through the ceiling fan port, and then that soot has then settled in the ceiling fans in the other rooms.