I've surrounded it with dirt and rocks and plants--a rock garden.

Our MF owners buy everything from small mom and pop garden style apartments to porfolio transactions.

I'm pretty much in the same boat as Nathan, I write in 3-5% and I either slap them with a 2% increase, have them pick up the gardener bill (if I'm paying for it) or leave them alone, if they are taking really good care of the property.

When you figure this out, you can decide whether investing is for you and whether you should go into flipping 1 family houses, or buying 500 unit garden apartment complexes.

I upgraded the existing boxes, split out the wiring for the third, installed a new grounding rod (wasnt one before), and moved the boxes from inside a garden apartment to the opposite side of a wall so that they were in a utility room.

I just have some free time this morning after coming in from the garden.

I also like to look for STRs myself near Bush Gardens, USF college and the Tampa Medical centers.

A garden.

It is...I moved up from Carroll Gardens and before that the EV.  

It has restaurant sizzle and cool hippy dippy gardens with chickens in the backyard, but not the tourist demand of downtown Oakland, SF, or other areas..