That's like writing in the stove section "Gets dirty easily" LOL.  

I have a smooth top stove and SS appliances so I provide cleaners for those.)

-Robert Frost                 "Mending Wall" 

The problem is in my area you can't have a stove in the basement.

@Bob Mazza, I agree with much of what others already posted here - oil stains on the carpet and globs of grease caking walls, stove, floors, etc. is NOT NORMAL WEAR AND TEAR.

But, it's easy to just replace a hot water heater if necessary.We also provided a little stove/oven (gas) and there was a gas wall heater, and a fridge. 

I actually asked my property manager if I could stop providing refrigerators and stoves, but she said it is expected in our area.Mike

You can still have a restricted breed list, but if most landlords aren't allowing pets, and you do, they'll pay a premium for that alone.Other than that, as a manager, this is what tenants seemed to want:hardwood floors (lots of tenants have phobias about other people's dirt, and they don't believe it can be cleaned out of carpets)washer/dryer or at least hook-ups in-unit.large closetsassigned parking, preferably coveredability to change paint colorsgas stove/ovensporch or balcony or yardIronically, the units I rented out didn't have quite a few of these things, but they were things tenants requested or mentioned they would like to have.  

Depreciating a stove at 10 years or whatever is allowed will give you some tax advantage over just lumping everything into the 27.5 year depreciation for the home.

Yup, yellow for the most part (apart from behind the fridge and stove) and black above the picture rail.