Also, my wife is an agent, so I'm trying to "plant the seed" that I can help even if they want to list with an agent. 

If the tenant keeps a place nice, plants flowers, or does good maintenance I try to acknowledge that.

Isn't that a hotbed of a General Motors plant?  

Air Force Plant 42 in ... on Tuesday could mean thousands of new jobs coming to Southern California. ...

@Tom Kelly is correct - your biggest issue is humidity and spillage.In Colorado, a single person may grow up to 99 plants if they are a care giver and getting a care giver license is laughably easy.  

Also check if they have a dryer that it's properly venting outside.. and that she's not leaving wet clothes to air dry in the house...No house plants or fish tanks... as the extra moisture they need only adds to the problem

When the trucks came in we didn't have a fork lift so one person was in the 18 wheeler and the other person was throwing the pumpkins, watermelons, wheat straw, pine straw, bags of potting soil, plants, crates off food at you.

I lived in Houston for 6 years after living in Austin for 10 and am now back in Austin.Austin is a technology hub, not just for semiconductor manufacturing but for actual technology start ups like Solar Winds and Dell and many others and stalwarts like Cisco, IBM, who both have a strong presence here and Google and Apple who are in the process of building campuses here along with GE and Visa.The lack of state tax, low cost of living and abundance of land makes Texas a great prospect for major corporations to set up shop (Samsung continues to expand their chip manufacturing plant as we speak) Even in smaller towns like Waco, you see job growth and new companies coming (mostly manufacturing) simply because the cost of doing business is so much cheaper.

@Russell Brazil  Ohio@Michael Plante      It's out of State so a little hard to knock on the owner's door.

Examples would be a university, large hospital, military base, industrial complex (like a refinery or power plant).