I’d be miserable if I had to drive in traffic to LB every week to clean trash.

and there's cleaning, carpet, painting, patching.

All your accountant cares about is seeing a clean profit and loss statement.

Can you imagine taking a couple days off work, looking for a new place, paying for new applications, putting down deposits, renting a moving truck, finding friends to help you move, paying to clean your old place, and so on to “Save” $300/yr? 

If the kitchen was not cleaned properly, it certainly should have been. 

To stay ahead of any issues, we offer coordination of gutter cleaning and furnace tune-up every fall and spring clean-up every spring. 4) Own the outcome—This is the philosophy we live by.

Typically  issues are raised when the exterior is not kept up with / parking on grass / garbage in neighborhoods where everyone takes pretty good care of their homes.If you keep it clean and run a tight ship, you should be okay most of the time.

I manage the property myself and I have a person that comes in to clean the property after each tenant.

I paid cash-for-keys to get her out; she was supposed to leave the property in "broom clean" condition at the walk-through.

Property was more disgusting than we anticipated and we had to put extra money into deeper cleaning.