Must be the new way to get out of rent. lolI said to my wife, who's to say they switch to washing clothes four times a week or take longer showers after I do the insulation.

You ask for unscrupulous investors who, when practicing a kind of wash selling, artificially inflate if price of a real property.  

The tenants are the key there since the damage and wear and tear can easily wash away any positive cash flow in that area and price point.

Offer to wash their car or mow the lawns at their rental properties if you have to, or answer their phones for a month from lead generation.

So was he found innocent of these charges?

Washing machine transmission broke in one of my single-family rentals

There was a story recently where a homeowner removed something in his back yard to make a basketball court, got caught and had to put it all back the way it originally was. (He

You have to wash the paneling, sand the varnish a bit, a couple coats of primer (at least) and a couple coats of paint (at least).

He could be someone who is conservative, while the other tenants have kids and car washes and lawn sprinklers. 

The only reason I can see is if your wife needs an earned income to qualify for something like a Roth IRA, but since you also talked about paying yourself I assume that's not your goal..Anything you "write off" paying yourself/your wife will have to them be claimed as income....so generally it's a wash but just more paperwork and complexity.