The point of college - at least in the abstract - is to expose you to a wide variety of ideas and people and ways of thinking that you don't even know exist yet ... so that you can form yourself into the best human you can possibly be.  

As a side note, I just closed on this house about a month ago- within a week, these tenants have already planted flowers and landscaping...  

We cleared and planted about 300 fruit trees and flowers on it. 

Both have their pluses and minuses (Scottsdale - beautiful homes and higher end - more profitable on each property) and (Phoenix - variety of neighborhoods, some good, some bad - but much more affordable for investing, just takes a few more properties to make the same return, but still doable)And, the market is Not inflated here at this time.

I did some searching and found a number of posts by landlords at a variety of sites complaining of the extreme difficulty of ridding units of curry odors.

There's (1) standout option:  Bill.comI'll be using Bill.com to collect payment from tenants for a variety of reasons.

Good questions, a variety of answers depending on the following: .

Should I go over and move the stones and dig up flowers?

I purchased landscaping bricks to go around the home, put mulch in the flower beds, removed a ton of debris (old roots and stumps) from the flower beds and manicured the yard to perfection.

There are a variety of factors as to why it could go up, claims, etc.