I've talked to a broker who said my rent would essentially wash my mortgage payment off my DTI.  

To save water, have the tenants share the shower, only take one bath a week, flush the toilet only after 5 uses, remove the water meter and replace it with a connector pipe (so no water is being metered), have tenants only use bottle water to drink and cook with, take showers at vacant for sale  houses where you have the key box code (make friends with your local agent), wash up in the morning in the bathroom at a local restaurant or gas station. ;-)OK, I am only kidding.The only appliance you have that can be replace with a higher efficiency unit would be the water heater.Bill the tenants for water use, make copies of the water bill and have the tenants pay per sq. ft. of the space they rent.Water bills for our family properties has always been a problem.Often times the meter is not read or miss-readIf you have your own meters installed, the burden is that you have to read it every quarter.

., wash/dry on on Hoyt Ave and have a ballpark for the monthly rent.

Spend two hours power washing it and it goes from a dirty fence to fresh looking wood. 

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Whenever you do not base things on face and present value then you are gambling even if you feel sure A and B will follow just because it makes sense to you in your own head but what if............................................................................So maybe investors have been washed out because want if did happen, remember Muphy's Law. 

The one funny part of the episode was he needed $10K in cash sometime before closing, I was ready and willing to give it to him, but his attorney vetoed it.

Who wants to live in a nice house where you can't have a pool/water a lawn/take showers/wash clothes/Etc?

In the early spring, we often spray the hose on the panels to wash off some of the pollen, but I'm not 100% certain it is needed given rain and overnight dew + wind.  

The problem was he was in a bad area, nobody wanted to live there no matter how nice the place was.