On one of the properties, someone left a trailer with a broken hitch so it cannot be hooked up to a tow hitch in order to be towed.

Electricity can vary quite a bit, having energy efficient home upgrades can help there.  

The bathrooms need upgrading.

Small landlords upgrading rentals?

Hey everyone I am Ryan from Tyler, Tx I am a real Estate Photographer as-well as a freelance photographer in the custom automotive world, but being around real estate and listening to BP podcast has really lite a fire for me and my wife to want to invest in the Short Term rentals. our plan is to use our equity from our home now to pick up a Vacation rental in the smokies, we are in Texas so I really looked at Broken Bow, Ok originally but that market has sky rocketed in price way out of our budget. once we get the vacation home producing a income, we plan to do some fixing up to our townhome to turn it into a medium term rental for nurse and collage students since we are a 10/15 min drive from both here locally. for some of you veteran investors does this sound like a proper way of going about getting our foot in the door of our investing? 

Stuff can be broken, stolen etc. 

They are two 4 plexes (each of which need new roofs, gutters etc......not sure about inside upgrades but sure a lot is needed there too. 

This includes 3 bed bug infestations, 7 gas red tags, a broken window from hell that the first 4 window contractors would not touch and the pane replacement was almost $1k (this window is unique with an absurd fire rating).  

Hello again,So I own a unit on the second story and my tenant (who is being removed and moving August 3rd due to non renewal of contract) has broken their toilet twice.Water has flooded from my powder room into his powder room twice now within two years that my tenants have lived there.The owner of the unit below me has threatened me multiple times with legal actions.It is my understanding that the liability falls on the tenant (since I have had the toilet fixed each and every time within a 24-48 hour time frame).The Residential Lease Agreement (that I purchased from this website) also states that the plumbing falls as their responsibility.Any thoughts or ideas on what I should do?

If there's only enough to do one of those, it becomes a bit tricky and again depends how badly you need it to pay off your bills.If you have an older property or one with a bunch of deferred maintenance, I generally like to re-invest the money into the property to make smaller upgrades over time.