They requested these be replaced as the dishes "slide around".

My niece lives in one of my units, she washes dishes with water continuously running, at least she did until she got her first $150 water bill which is a 1/3 of her total rent. 

Do you provide essentials in the common areas such as furniture, dishes, etc?

Dishes and posts and pans are easy enough to pick up at thrift stores or dollar stores.

We have seen certain tenants start washing dishes in the dishwasher and they had a whole cup, spoon, and plate in it.

I did this once for a document when I lived in Korea, but definitely needed help from a Korean friend to explain to them what I needed and explain the proces to me, but it all worked out.3.

However, in your attempt to serve a tasty dish, you threw some sushi and some ice cream into gumbo.

Maybe Murphy's Oil soap all of the wood and leave it as is and see if it rents.I say that because you don't know what's behind that paneling (cost $$$)(40 layers of wallpaper, giant cracks in the lath and plaster, etc...) and from the pic it looks like a lot of cabinets (cost $$$) to replace.If it were mine and I decided to leave it as is, I'd probably do the kitchen floor in (period type) 12 x 12 squares and replace the carpet with dark LVP and see how much rent I could get for it.Probably a new Formica top and a new Dish Washer (just to avoid service calls on the old one) and Greige the wall color.Of course from the pics I can't tell the condition of the cabinets--but have have seen similar ones of that age in incredible shape.Good Luck!

My mother-in-law (who has admitted herself that she is not a great cook) once looked at me in bewilderment and asked how I made all of the dishes in a meal come out at the same time. 

BiggerPockets..Thanks to the BP community here, not only was I able to meet two AWESOME and KNOWLEDGEABLE joint venture partners: @Maxwell Lee and @Kelly L. and make that first investment, I was also able to meet @John Van Uytven who had the great idea to start a meetup out here in Korea - The Seoul Real Estate Investing Meetup which I've posted about in the past:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/223/topics/185...A Korean market-focused podcast - Marketing In Korea - asked me to come on the show to talk about my 17 years of experience doing business in Korea as well as talk about the meetup I help co-organize and how I was able to invest in the US while living in Korea.