You go snow removal, trash removal, cable, exterior maintenance, and sewage expenses for that amount.

Your cash flow will not be that high once capex starts hitting you over the head.You have no snow removal expense?

And the fact that they call and text me incessantly to want to "buy" my houses when I know they would struggle to buy me Big Mac and fries!

It is a never ending circle of nothing but talk with poorly thought out actions.Another perfect example of ridiculous rules to solve a problem is the CA drought crisis we finally got out of last year thanks to two straight years of good rain and snow and NOTHING to do with the new rules they implemented like having all home owners only water their lawns on 2 days during the week and on set days which actually only commands less than 4% of all water usage in the state or the stupid rain barrels we have to put into every home in LA for new construction, gutters send rain water from roof to barrels and then just the most average storm fills them beyond capacity and the water overflows into the overflow drain and right into the street gutters where it would have ended up anyways and in actuality, more would have fallen into the yards had there been no rain barrels.Enough rant, question is, what can we as investors and citizens do to stop these ridiculous rocket launchers being brought to a knife fight?

Cleveland is a different story and there seems to be many restrictions and snow season is a problem to deal with. 

Look, you are probably a nice person, but snow flakes don't survive in real estate in Seattle.

I advertise in several northern US cities for my winter snow bird market, and Atlanta for my summer market.

I was just getting ready to walk out the door for the last one and it started snowing.

But if you love the snow you won’t get it here.

I hauled wood for the stove, hauled snow to melt fir water, dug outhouses every few years, changed the propane tanks as needed so we could have lights.