He ended up suing them for the $3000 in damage caused when the pipes burst in the laundry room and flooded the kitchen.

We buy in bulk at Sam's.We get a large pump body wash from Walmart.He get decorative hand soap dispensers and buy large jugs to refill all these.

We actually keep a pantry pretty well stocked with basics:  tea, coffee, cleaning supplies & laundry stuff, cup of noodles, ramen, soup, oatmeal packets, microwave popcorn, spices, bottled water, lemonade mix/crystal light, etc.  

When I was 19 I was washing dishes out of high school in Columbus and then decided to buy a single-family rental.

To expand on this, and to peg when a person can just be "The Owner" and wash hands of being IN the day-2-day.... 

Does NOT mean you will NOT cashflow right away but most of the time in San Diego you are buying to ADD value, raise rents and finding other opportunities to raise your cashflow like; add AC, laundry, storage, etc. 

.$4 - ARM & HAMMER Super Washing Soda Household Cleaner and Laundry Booster - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0029XNTEUYou need to clip the 75 cents off coupon and setup subscribe and save to get that price.

There thinking some clean-up-fairy comes swooping in with a broom, washes the ashes away and then Bob The Builder n all his friends comes hot on the hells, Bing-Bang-Boom all is rebuilt and were singing kumbayas by Christmas.......Reality is it took about 10 years to rebuild post katrina. 

My goal is to add verbiage within the lease that will decrease any tiffs between tenants for the common spaces and how to set expectations and promote group effort with cleaning the common areas/shoveling snow/personal dishes/shared fridge/laundry/having guests and so forth. 

The nice thing is that with investment properties it all comes out in the wash of your due diligence.