I usually end up getting them new from Home Depot.  

Setup your property as a class in addition to it being a fixed asset in your chart of accounts.Now, whenever you write a check to purchase anything for this property, except mowing the grass or cleaning the place, then link that expense to the property located in the Class feature.So you will have for example:1628 North Highway as a Class and then 1628 North Highway as a Fixed Asset Account in your Chart of Accounts.When you write a check to Home Depot for $300.00 for a new water heater,  type in the account column of the check, (or select it from the drop down list) 1628 North Highway (WIP) and in the Class column of the check,  you will choose 1628 North Highway.  

I do all my tenant screening through turbo tenant and my lease creating through law depot.

When you have a regular maid, a regular gardener or even a regular handyman, who are not independent contractors, licensed and insured, in case of accident, they "may" come after you based on the "regularity" of their employment.

Get good at repairing things and make Home Depot your best friend.

When I was working on the house he’d bring vegetables from his garden over for me and we’d talk for a while.

Somethings we do are offer grocery gift cards for our tenants when they move in, supply a community garden space where tenants can plant their own vegetables, and ask great tenants if they have any friends or relatives that would be interested in living in the building (traits are often shared among the five people you are closest with).Closing thoughts: it is always cheaper to have a vacant unit than one that is filled with a bad tenant who is looking for the cheapest rent.

Where to live depends upon their personalities, of course, but I would recommend--for a couple working at those two hospital in the city, to live either Uptown, the Garden District, the Lower Garden District, the Irish Channel, Mid-City, or Bayou St.

I bought a great template tool from Home Depot that allows you to cut perfect notches into doors for hinges, but you will need a router (and not the ones made for wifi lol)For done reason there doesn't seem to be a standard for the location of hinges, but the doorknobs always seem to be in the exact same spot.If you don't like the unused part of the notch from the old hinge location, and the doors are painted doors, you can fill the unused space with Bondo and paint over.

(Lowes, Home Depot) Cheery lights in the windows.