Has the option to choose round or oval shape.

Usually the tenant will shape up once they know I'm on to them.

This unit in particular isn't in the best shape: 10 year old carpets and paint, roaches, incredibly messy tenants (they are now gone), etc. 

The challenge will be: will rental rates continue with their vigorous upward trend or will they soften.

See how that is changing, and respond to the trends.

http://www.crimemapping.com/There are some other ones around here also.Depending on if the area is rural, suburban, or urban might determine if data is easily accessible.You want to look at crime trends and if increasing in line with population levels.

Better put something in your rental agreement to cover that.Cleaning - We will clean the unit upon tenant move-out, but if the unit requires extra cleaning because the tenant left certain things in poor shape, we will charge for the extra cleaning according to a price list that we gave to the tenant with their move-out instructions.

It had the old cream city brick basement that was not in good shape.

The foundation is in decent shape, but it is old and has settled a little over 150 years, so floors have some slope to them that would be hard to fix without a huge effort.

An odd thing that seems to happen with me is when I set the rent near the top of the market, I at first thought it would weed out bad tenants and leave those in good financial shape.