The tenant was washing the walls when I got there, and I didn't see any damage.Note: full refund actually means minus the carpet cleaning fee for every one of them.

What was he thinking?????

Tenant will pay for utilities so that is a wash.

So far I have boosted curb appeal by power washing the exterior, painting the shutters, removing some old rotting fences and dead trees and bushes.

Filling up pools in the backyard or having more people live there than they told you etc but then again in most cases you can just resolve that between you and the tenant.Thanks for the insight … yea it’s minimal, my units don’t have a washing machine, dish washer or a pool for that matter.

And that is not to minimize a lot of other things we do as to maintenance... we paint properties, pressure wash, replace pool liners, do what preventative maintenance we want to do and farm out the rest.  

It's one of those things as the property gets bigger the cost can be more of a baked in expense for the cost/benefit.Some gas stations can get 100% bonus depreciation followed by car washes where not 100% but a lot of it year 1 can be depreciated.Tax accountants often can do basic calculations for cost seg but if you do plumbing and electrical in walls and all of that really need an engineer for those services.

He kept reminding me that his motivation for selling was he’s age.

His response was he didn't have a plan written out yet, but could talk me through it.

A couple of the old ladies were taking in the neighborhood wash that ran an extra $90/month, another unit had a toilet leak that ran an extra $500 over 3 months.