In 1987 I bought an old Cape built in 1942, the Pearl Harbor attack was on a front page newspaper stuffed in the bathroom wall to hold the soup dish in place during the build.The stucco had seen better days & was peeling away from the wire mess & leaking badly within the wall cavity.

I don't think I'll ever get used to pre-soaking and pre-rinsing dishes. 

I purchased dented refrigerator, gas range, dish washer and microwave, the whole package for half off.

I sometimes hand wash a few dishes and my wife yells at me "you spend 50 gallons already washing a few dishes".

I poured a few bottles of Dawn dish detergent over the next 12 months and watered it in until grass finally began to grow back.I did all the work myself (except the new 200 Amp service) over a fourteen month period, including painting inside and outside.

That works great for a lot of things...AC registers, light switches and outlet covers, towel bars, shower curtain rods, soap dishes, exhaust hoods above the range, the range itself, fridges, windows..heck I even refinish showers and bath tubs with appliance epoxy spray paint...love it...

But other than dishes and mess all around, nothing they are doing is really affecting the house.

Meet in the morning with everyone to solve the problem, now what to do with tenants, whose fault, where to go from here.You do “Drive-By” inspections and find tenants parking their cars on the lawnYou notice tenants having unauthorized guestsSee them doing drugs as they sit on the porch with their friends.You see they have a dog they shouldn’t haveInspections show they are HoardersFind out they are constant complainers(In my case…drive by shootings, bullet holes in rentals, thievery) was the norm in some areasWater abuse in apartment buildingsWe find a Dish on roofs when forbidden to have one on the roofAnd so much moreOn top of being ready to take care of emergencies any time night or day, and solving tenant issues.

We took lots of photos for our cleaning crew—the dishes get organized like this, this is how the bed should look after you make it, this is how to arrange the magazines and remote on the coffee table, etc.Lastly, if you're going to refinance it to pull equity out, don't tell your bank your renting it on Airbnb.

There’s only 1 serious headache that I’ve had so far and luckily they were all bark and no bite.Rarely have any damage over $50... mostly a broken dish or forgotten beach towel.