So our properties are gradually increasing in value as the neighborhood revitalizes, and then we use forced appreciation to take it up a notch.

If you have a nice sized marketing budget and a top notch lead capture system it might be worth your time to take a look.  

However, if I showed up to view a property and all the units were all fixed up and looking top notch, I would probably have a better feeling about renting here.

Unless your market "forces" you to go up a notch on landscaping, don't.

Either you gave them crap materials (eg, your financial house is a mess, like giving a painter crummy paint), or they suck (you provided top notch materials/paint, and STILL got shoddy workmanship out of it), or some combination thereof.What due diligence did you do when you hired that person?

Consider the other homes in the neighborhood and what would fit in, then aim for at least one notch above that.

You're right - top notch info for free.

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I haven't used bandit signs in years, but the cheapest I got was $2 a sign after shipping, etc.One of the flippers I work with spends $15k a year just to have the right to buy a list from a top notch data nerd.

I can recommend agents all over the country that are top notch.