Also, if you have window blinds, clean them as well.

So glad I (a SoCal, San Diego investor who was just blindly thinking of out of state investing) added "San Diego" as a keyword last week, just to see if there's anything local.

Some of the windows currently have blinds.

So the law says one thing.....but my moral's won't allow me to turn a blind eye.  

If paneling is dark, install white mini blinds and show with the lights on.You can put in a couple of low cost luxuries that will make the place stand out.

Nice fixtures,but cheap, and try and find fixture covers that will not break when the tenant drops it while replacing a bulb.No horizontal blinds but rather vertical blinds where we must provide window treatments, and always the same manufacturer so that we can maintain a stock of replacement parts.

I believe it is a law RE agents are not to just blindly give the lock box codes to non agents.

If I had blindly adopted the tough guy eviction mentality I would have missed out on all those years of hassle free tenants and zero vacancy.

My opinion is put a blind ad in local papers saying X amount of acres for rent to best offer by X date.

She should have never given me the ride in the first place, much like blindly giving one month for free to a tenant.