Modern dryers are much better at eliminating lint and if you make sure to vent using straight runs (no flex pipe) and use a secondary lint trap, I doubt you run much of a risk.

This usually only causes maintenance trouble down the line because the paint traps water up against the brick.Also, landscaping trim up the bushes, maybe some plantings along the bottom of the buildings.Lastly, what about a low white fence in front of the grass extending from each building to the center walkway.

So I've found an off-market deal for a block of five c-class properties in Georgia at 10% below market, a few of which are currently in Section 8.

Put your offer in as not contingent on home Inspection but you want an Insection done "for your own knowledge".If anything maJor shows up you can simply not sign contract.

I look back and regret the money I pissed away from age 24-30 paying high rent, blowing money to go out in the city, and taking trips that everyone else was just because I saw my friends doing it on facebook.Do not get caught in the trap of thinking you have to do or buy what your friends are doing on facebook! 

I found a guy who used a gel/paste and roaches were gone in a matter of days.Don't let insects run you away from a property.

That being said, over-improvement is a "thing" and many a new landlord has fallen into the trap of spending money with no ROI from those improvements.

Several traps around the house and one with a dead mouse.

Put in new toilets, new faucets, new P traps, etc.

Sometime we really unerestimate the power and strength of financial traps, take heed, they can be deadly.