Even in our 2-4 unit properties, moving to en-suite laundry using energy and water efficient front-load machines has not seen a meaningful increase in our water bill.  

In real estate investing I see that I have to change my traditional ways of thinking and realize cash in hand today is many times more meaningful than future savings.

I primarily use the BRRR method, so the end goal is to have little-to-no cash invested which means that Cash on Cash Return is not a really meaningful metric.

So it really depends less on the debt percent and more on how the debt is paid off and what the rest of your money is doing for you.  99% of these 27+ pages have been focused around proving/disproving the returns of using a strategy of pulling a HELOC and using it to make large chunk payments to the mortgage.I have been somewhat alone on an island trying to spark a discussion revolving around replacing your mortgage with a LOC (of the same amount and same percentage) and routing all your income/expenses out of it. 

Its smack in the middle of the Reno Triangle between Reno, Sparks, and Carson City.I don't know that area well enough, sorry.

But, I'm going to disagree about the fact that landlords shouldn't be allowed to try to rent to people they believe will their business easier and smoother to run.Not being able to communicate with your tenants poses safety risks in some situations (for example, I had a tenant call me a couple weeks ago to tell me that the powerline in the back yard was sparking -- that isn't something I would have wanted them to wait until they had an interpreter for), it makes it more difficult to keep the business profitable (for example, if a lease allows for showings and the landlord can't schedule those showings efficiently) and can make it much more difficult and expensive for a landlord to enforce rights should the tenants not uphold their responsibilities (I assume the eviction process would be more complicated and costly, especially if the tenants are afforded extra rights through the judicial system).My issue here has nothing to do with the tenant, the tenant's heritage or ethnicity or anything else related to the tenant's background. 

And if you're doing any electrical work don't forget the bottle of sparks, decepticons, autobots, and a 360 degree motorized rotating ladder to screw in light bulbs. 

If they thwart that entry in some meaningful way, serve them the 3 day notice to comply or quit along with 30 days notice to vacate.Sounds like a tenant either used to bullying you, or expecting to be able to.  

When a tenant doesn't instinctively do the right thing, then they may need to be taught, with clear guidelines and meaningful consequences.

You also want to do thing that are meaningful to your tenant/client - not meaningful to you as the owner.