To counter that, the fun part is that you get to be creative and figure out how to utilize a 12" space in your kitchen that won't require waiting a month for a cabinet (custom wine rack?).

After a few years, we decided to cash out and buy a hospitality-related business in the Northern CA Wine Country. 

My wife and I really loved the area, and saw a lot of potential for an investment property as the area draws a high-end residential community, as well as year round events that bring in droves of tourists. 

I was providing a place for tourists to stay, paying taxes to the city, and supporting local businesses (I had a local cleaning company there 2 or 3 times a week)!

There were a few people pretty adamant about cleaning up bandit signs of all types, middle aged women with local tourist businesses that didn't take kindly to people putting up what they considered illegal ads on other peoples properties.They spend money on other channels of advertising and considered it not only illegal but also unethical business practices.I have used bandit signs myself and they are very effective, we used to put them out on weekends and have them picked up by Monday mornings.

Nothing crazy...a card accompanied by a bottle of wine, treats/toys for their pets, chocolates, the like.

If you have a lot of tourist for example, you may not want to market your house towards plant workers because you wouldn't want your house booked for 3-6 months by 1 person.

Take her out, have a nice dinner, have some wine, let her know how much you love her, and DONT mention the war-zone property profit theory. 

@Matthew Paul Although that IS a pretty easy way to make some quick cash (especially on the strip with drunk tourists) it's not quite as consistent as a monthly rent check/mortgage payment.

His studio apartment was quite small and felt even smaller due to the ominous presence of a giant cross made out of heavy hand-hewn timbers, which he would haul around the courtyard and perimeter of the apartment complex nightly while wearing not much besides an actual crown of thorns, while drinking red wine and flagellating himself with a leather whip, reliving the blood sacrifice that redeemed us all as a way to thank Jesus for delivering him from the box of snakes (and freaking out the other residents in the apartment complex in the process, although weirdly they all just kind of ignored him).