Also, the cistern water tank in the back yard that supplies the whole complex is a huge flag that screams management has a hard time making good decisions. 

Tenants could scream that you were responsible for protecting them and you let them down.

I know brown screams old, but it seems like a shame to paint these.  

Even my basic understanding of the numbers allows me to hear them scream, "nooooo!"

Needless to say the "screaming cat" was gone and never came back...Anyway, you are describing 3 different issues:You can hear themYou can feel your bed moveYou are worried they can hear youThere is not too much you can do about hearing them walk around, unless you want to spend a ton of money. 

My descriptions are very loose, and I am sure other Dallas natives are screaming at their keyboards with my definitions.  

If you are expecting top dollar rents for the area your agent is going to have to work a LOT harder to get a tenant than if the rent is a screaming good deal for the area. c) Curb appeal -- do these houses look top-of-the-line when you pull up to them?

The constant high fives and the jumping up and down and screaming wasn't for me. 

I had 6 units at my maximum.This past May, I decided to capatalize on the appreciation of some screaming deals bought in 2011.

case in point.. a few years back city of Corvallis required us to do full engineering plans to go along with our prelim plat approval... everywhere else in ORegon you get pre lim plat approval relatively easy then you get a laundry lists of conditions.. sometimes the conditions are such that its not financially feasible to build the subdivision.Well we spent 100k getting all the final engineering done.. went into planning the neighbors were screaming like stuck pigs  ( 40 acres full of mature doug fir timber so it was like their private park.we negotiated to 27 lots  that would have worked... but neighbors wanted 23 .. one in particular did not want a house close to theirs and did not want the trees cut...