This also helps cover costs when units become vacant and can help make costly expenses easier to cover which helps you maintain your reserve.Everything is scaleable and everything has its own pros and cons.

Remind them of your responsibilities (maintaining the property) and leave it at that.

One of my main areas to work on is my ability to be assertive and push my contractor while still maintaining a positive relationship...

You can roll your investment from one QOF to another and still maintain compliance with the 10-year rule as long as you dispose of your entire interest in the QOF and roll it into another qualifying QOF within 180 days. 3.

The most recent lease I added: Tenant must maintain lawn and outside of property...including but not limited to.

Another perspective would be to apply the "Asspro rule of 2%" (© Costin 2018) - the cost of setting up and maintaining your asset protection should be less than 2% of equity you are trying to protect.

In one case the lawnmower broke (pull handle) with the first tenant and in another, they bought a push mower, that...get's the job done.I'm debating on whether I want to have yet another appliance to maintain by providing a lawnmower, but at the same time, I feel it is unreasonable to expect tenants to buy a lawnmower as renters. 

Hot water should be maintained at a target level of 120 degrees.

They usually want to keep it at a 90% rate, to maintain their portfolio.Credit Unions also behave similarly.

Landlord agrees to maintain structural condition of the firebox/chimney.Tenant agrees to promptly report to Landlord, in writing, any defects or problems that arise with the fireplace or its use.