In my situation( for the tax liens), I was responsible for keeping the grass cut to a reasonable level and I had to pay property taxes at the end of the year, if the tax liens had not been redeemed yet.

You can't turn the breaker off as you mentioned the cat feeder is plugged in and this would result in the cat not being fed. 

If I ever decide I'm fed up with roommates, I've included PM fees into my projections so I can dip out.

Buy one that you can include the snow removal and grass cutting in the analysis and you will be fine.

Spoke to my attorney this morning, and actually every bank owned home, including Fed properties I have acquired has had the same type of language in them.  

I would also cancel the lawn service with that company and find a new company before your grass needs cutting again.

Your tenants on Kentucky suck at cutting their grass.

I think this depends on what class of neighborhood your property is in.College students, yes I can see your point.Class C or maybe B neighborhoods, have it nice when they move in, after that you aren't going to be able to charge for professional landscaping and it isn't going to get you more rent.Class A neighborhood, these tenants can afford to hire professional landscapers themselves.I don't want to have a landscaper on payroll and run the risk that they could claim I am their employer.I mow the grass myself at my VRBO lake house as I want to check on the property regularly anyway and can just jump on my riding mower to cut the crass and touch it up with a weed eater.

Three words: Asset Price Inflation.Remember all that money the Fed printed years back (Quantitative Easing) - simple economics tells us you cant inject this much money into a system without causing inflation, but consumer prices haven't moved much so what happened?

You get "F"ed and not kissed