Some plants (such as bamboo, Hawaiian Ginger, banana trees,) rapidly drink up water and return it to the atmosphere.

Enter properties to do maintenance inspections twice a year.Walk the grounds at our 8-plex once a week and clean the coin-op laundry room there once a month and water plantings as needed.Field tenant calls when we are away.Schedule contractors for tenant needs and, as our representative, be present when contractors are working in a tenant's unit.Field prospective renter calls when we are advertising a vacancy.Assist with apartment turnover (clean out, painting, errands, showing, etc.).Give another perspective on planning upgrades or remodels of our properties.Do errands and help with paperwork as needed.

I have a rental and I am wondering if I can depreciate mulch, gardening soil, annual flowers and perennials? Also I have built multiple pergolas around the yard with pressure treated lumber.  What depreciation schedul...

Where this is an over/under duplex the ceiling / floor assembly between the two units will need to be fire rated - here that translates into voids filled with fire-rated insulation such as Roxul Safe-n-Sound, resilient channel across the joists and 5/8" fire rated drywall (or the 1/2" dense core fire rated which is super expensive).  

Drain the pond, and plant it.  

If home owners have planted trees on the easement the city will remove them.

I used to work for a company that has a manufacturing plant there.

It is a negative, just like any other public negative - less negative probably than being next door to a landfill or sewer plant, more negative than being next door to some simple public building.

All the plants along the coast (Pasadena, Texas City, Baytown, La Porte) have steady work, and people with industrial jobs get back on the job ASAP because it's a no-work no-pay model.

Furthermore, Intel is spending 20 Billion dollars to build two semiconductor plants, and many more great things presently and coming in the future.