I just bought this property..... and PM found a tenant at $1000/mo within 2 weeks and the tenant just asked if it was ok to plant a flower bed.

Landscaping is a good example - we eliminate flower beds, anything that needs regual maintenance, often remove some of the trees (think leaves), favor evergreens over seasonal plants, boxwoods and globular arbs are our favorite for along the front and mulch beds get replaced by stone.

I give my tenants patio plants/flowers in the spring, just to say hi.  

We are continually fighting cats using the front flower beds to do their "business".

I started out my real estate career investing in property on my 21st birthday, back in 2001.  

Flowers.

We own properties in Fountain square, bates hendricks, Emerson heights, little flower, and lawrence.

Some of the great advantages are of course tax deductions but you can use the HSAs and 401k plans to invest in Real Estate, as well as other things so long as they are set up in your plan, and you can pay the spouse and kids (usually starting at age 5 or so as they have to contribute to the business somehow to be compensated) through the company's payroll which creates a nice tax deduction for braces, Christmas, birthdays and more!

We have pictures hanging in every room, towels on towel hangars, tp, soap dishes, silk flowers in the kitchen and bathrooms, plug in scents on super low, etc, etc, etc... 

I was younger than many, being a November birthday: only 10.