Do a walk through with your prospective tenant and have them agree to the condition of the property.Have you rental agreement specify that any abuse to the property other than normal wear and tear is the responsibility of the renter to repair.

Clueless governments over time have added rules to "help" tenants for political reasons such as rent control, then more rules to avoid tenants abusing previous rules leaving a relatively complex system that no new government has the guts to really cleanup (BTW the city of Seattle is trying to go down the same path, clueless politics know no borders).Now, if there are still millions of RE investors, they must make some money somehow otherwise they would all park their money abroad or in commercial RE, leading to residential prices dropping. 

WE lived in apartments our car was a mid 50S VW bug with no back seats.. it would be child abuse today

As well as a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) will then run from Fairview Park Mall to Ainslie Terminal in Cambridge.

Then you have the annual inspections which, again, in my market I would say is bordering on abusive. 

To keep people from abusing the free heat I'd like to put a clause in the lease that if the electric bill is over $100, the tenant gets billed for the overage and they must pay it in next months rent. 

Most banks are getting wise and not excepting these POF's from other sources due to the fact that most investors have abused this left and right and the banks have seen right through them.

I'm familiar with other industries and they really don't suffer from the false perceptions or the types of abuse inflicted by gurus or other advocates of business operations the way our real estate industry does.

In my opinion we have bad public policy in this country that leads to an over concentration of poor people in many urban areas, which then leads to high crime, substance abuse, poor schools, etc.  

You could drive for dollars (drive your market and look for vacant/abused properties), set up some bandit signs (we buy houses signs), or start a direct mail campaign.