The second year business improved and I picked a few repeat travelers and had one or 2 fishermen books severl weeks at a time which was great for income and not washing sheets and towels everyday. 

Rinse / wash / repeat.   

If you install new washes/dryers in each unit where there are none that builds your case for rent increase.6.

I'm sure they'd be grateful for a takeout meal on their landlord and it eases the burden of making a meal without a stove (and fewer dishes to wash by hand), even if for one evening.

Pretty much a wash. 

Sometimes I notice the tenants will wash/hang in the unit, and we even had one try to have a washing machine in unit (we stopped it when we found out). 

In some of them it's a fabric panel you have to replace or wash; in some of them it's more like the lint filter on a dryer (a plastic or wire mesh) that you just scrape off/wash off and reinstall. 

We are currently looking at duplexes with 4br 2ba, and it seems that historical utilities combined for these if the owner pays are in the neighborhood of 300-400$ a month.It definitely is a gamble in Northeast Ohio to take the time to install additional meters to pass on the fees to the tenant, but you are right that if it means I have to lower rents to compensate its a wash on income and a negative on the expense I accrued due to metering.

Now go wash those hands, ya stink bro....... 

My thoughts, were Eastside properties will be worth more when Seattle is washed away!