The backyard was completely redone, new retaining walls, side garden with automatic watering, etc.

You can’t expect tenants to maintain elaborate gardens anywhere, though.

The wealthier neighborhoods have more and better stuff to steal.One technique I've heard about for 40 years is the brazen daytime robbers dressed as movers who show up at a house with a large moving van and empty it out while the neighbors watch (it happened on the street where I lived in the Rose Garden neighborhood of San Jose, California).

We spent about $94k: new: kitchen, baths, floors, carpets, windows, lighting, HVAC, gardens front and back.

I’m a gardener and would love to live on some land so I can put my hobby farm skills to use, but the homes with land in Florida seem to be in areas where I am concerned about safety.

We havent had any problems out of it in 6 year unless I forget about it when watering the garden and run our cistern dry.

Pretty easy.For electric:Turn off breaker, make sure power is off at water heater.Hook a garden hose to drain, open valve and let heater be draining.Disconnect power, 2 wires and a ground.Disconnect water lines.See if HD will give you a discount since your buying 4 of these.Once tank is drained removed tank with help from a friend or a dolly.Reverse the process.Don't turn power back on till tank is full of water.Check with your utility company to see if there are any rebates or incentives.I replaced the one at my VRBO lake house with a new water heater and my utility company sent me a check for $300.

I bought the bell gardens one in November and will be refying next month and from recent comps I would think I’d be able to pull out probly 1/3 of what I put in maybe more.    

If you’d like to discuss further, I’d be happy to help as there are many major developments coming to Winter Garden, Clermont even Titusville.

With two separate homes on one lot, would you make the tenants responsible for the gardening?