You’d only be rewarding her, and encouraging similar future behavior, if you pay her. 

I understand this is thoughtful, but you are rewarding your tenants for fixing things in your apartment. 

Obviously being a cashier at a fast food chain will have its limits on investing so anyone who wants to get serious in this market should have an above average income to make things possible.

Your edge is the fact that your salary and resources are affected by a different (and often more rewarding) economic area.3) Management has a lot of control over the information flow.

I had my pm go over with food coloring and put a few drops in the upper reservoir of the toilets.

He finds money to eat food .

The point isn't to complain but to make this larger point--no one would chide a grocery store for going out of business if laws practically made it legal for customers to get thousands of dollars of free food a month.

I'm thinking of places like outside of Lexington, KY where you can have lots of space, but also be a 30 minute drive to Whole Foods and Target. 

Of course you can probably learn all of this on youtube if/when the time comes, but  it's just food for thought.

Ahh haa, the higher the risk the greater the reward.