However, this concept is already priced into a lot of what's for sale, and into the behavior of local investors, who are fiercely competitive.

So much so that I'm seriously considering sending them a "best tenant" gift card to re-enforce their positive behavior.

Regards,I think your letter sets the tone for what's to come for them.I doubt they will stay if they think the area is going to result in going to prison.You also might want to legally concealed carry in the area.Dope fiends (their customers) as well as dealers can be unpredictable and sketchy in their behavior, and stealing your shoes could result in a bullet to pay for their next high.Also, watch out for unscrewed but still in the socket, missing, or broken exterior lights--that's rapist stuff.

My lease with that tenant has/had a very specialized bed bug addendum, that has an educational component similar to the requirements under the new Philadelphia law, so the tenant was made aware of bed bug behavior, and that they are hitch hiking bugs.

You see a lot of interesting graphs of things like population trends, cash flow vs appreciation,  compairson of local govt behaviors towards rentals.. 

I don't know the rules here, either, but I assume they just require a level of professional behavior, and trying to be helpful, so I don't see how that would be frowned on.  

I understand the discomfort of going with something new but if you know the right way of doing business and you are not doing it then you are facilitating the behavior. 

If you already have a nice stabilized asset that is performing nicely, easy to manage, and not leveraged to the hilt then doing nothing strikes me as intelligent behavior.

I read an article by a psychology professor, who was analyzing behaviors of people in a train compartment, when someone has a compartment for themselves at first and they spread out and then an hour later someone else joins them.

If it's the former, I would do the repair as, in my opinion, windows that have ratty or missing screens make the whole house look terrible and it's an issue if the tenants want to open a window to catch a cool breeze rather than run the air conditioner (behavior which should be encouraged, in my opinion).I think the larger question is why, when there are so many properties in the country that cash flow really well, why you're hanging on to one that does not.