You're in a blue state, so I assume a contractor has to have 187 different licenses to spray some foam in a house, and cost is probably higher.

Also check to see if there are outlets in the bathrooms - some old houses don't have them and that is a pain for tenants.Don't worry about the pink and blue tiles, it doesn't cost a ton to get the tile glazed White if the colors are really offensive.

It's not as exciting as the rapidly appreciating areas, but you've got a lot of solid blue collar and immigrant renters and less crime.

There is a house in the better neighborhood I buy in that has blue carpet.  

The lines are not very sharp and one can argue about the cutoffs but thats the way I look at it.Another way is to think about who would live in that neighborhoodA: Doctors, Lawyers, ExecutivesB: Nurses, salespeople, other white collarC: Truck Drivers, Retail Workers, Construction, other Blue CollarD: Welfare/Section 8/Drug dealers.

Judges in that area like to make up new rules out of the blue sometimes. 

How do you have a person's name blue?

From what I've gathered so far, the #1 factor to look at when evaluating a market is jobs.The chart above shows the total number of jobs available (Green) and the total number of people employed (Blue) in Fresno CA.You can see there's a definite uptrend since the recession (Grey).

For the inputs, at the moment, all of the ones that should be input by the user are in blue font, while the ones in black are calculations based on the other inputs and should not be edited.

I have considered them in the past, but always found a better "regular" tenant instead.Our general rule for property management is manage the upper-scale (middle-class, white-collar) properties ourselves and hire a PM for the lower-end (lower middle-class, blue collar) rentals.