Is it reasonable to expect tenants to take care of things (ie. not putting wet dishes and other things away in the cabinets..not banging the edges of cabinets when they put things away…not dripping water on outsides of cabinets leaving it… and things of that nature)?

They are all short term rentals so everybody is on their best behavior and we don't ever have to deal with that roommate who always leaves dishes in the sink!

Is it a few light switches replaced with a dish washer change out?

I can look at this two ways - - 1) Having a dishwasher may open my tenant field and reduce vacancy time. 2) People that knowingly rent a property without a dishwasher are willing to do dishes, and therefore likely willing to do regular household maintenance?

There were cowboy boots and clothes and dishes, an engine block, camping supplies.

I couldn't agree more......and unfortunately I was the guy who kept dishing out the money.

I dropped my Dish down to basic, to about $30 a month from $90 a month and got a Roku for Netflix ($8 a month) and a bunch of free channels.

The failing Blockbuster chain was purchased by Dish Network in 2011 in a bankruptcy auction for $320 MM.

I couldn't vote for my favorite dish either;)

It's hard on a property to have tenants switching from cable to dish/satellite to broadband at each turn of the property.