Maybe its a wash when everything is considered. 

While you'll get a better guest review for being clean - unless you are scrubbing toilets, cleaning grout or tubs, replacing supplies,  washing sheets and making beds, mopping floors,  and cleaning windows it's not enough - so you might as well not cause you're going to be charged either way.  

And oh boy, this thing needed everything; severe water leaks on roof, major pressure washing, painting (inside/outside/ceilings), replace plumbing, electrical, appliances, landscaping was a joke, etc. etc.

I can have it pressure washed by the same guy that does the regular pressure washing. 

I managed 100 properties WITHOUT any help, WITHOUT a computer, WITHOUT a Cell Phone, WITHOUT a Fax Machine, WITHOUT the MLS, WITHOUT any lock boxes, etc... 

Hey guys, one of tenants said that while she was washing the dishes, the water over heated and now there's no hot water at all.

So places you'll find them or they'll hide out - wood furniture, bed headboards, under the mattress, they'll crawl to the ceiling/corner of the wall and lay eggs (look for black specks) - if you see things like that you'll need to scrape and paint - there are treatments you can do to spray the baseboards, furniture etc - local pest control companies should be able to treat - I've also heard the only way to fully get rid of them is with a heat treatment as well as everything else I mentioned.Your tenants would need to wash all beddings, strip all furniture down, spray/treat the furniture, spray baseboards, etc etc - pretty labor intensive to do it right.

In my preliminary, very conservative calculations, it almost comes out as a wash.  

It was he who got us started on this path and I thank him for his vision.In the early years there were times when I wanted to throw in the towel and sell the rentals because it was taking a toll on our relationship.

Our fourplexes in AZ have pay machines.