Getting to the owners is the trick.

Kilz and new carpet plus fresh paint should do the trick. 

Try Restore A Finish in the best matching tone - it may be enough to do the trick.  

I'm wondering if that's because it's managed in house, or if there is some new trick to making PPC more effective. 

That's all we did for many years and there are a lot of tips and tricks on how to quickly navigate that market.

This is because communist utopia was never the goal, it was a trick that they told you they were trying to work towards in order to enslave you

You can see why rental arbitrage has such a bad name when every person that gets tricked in to tying it through the latest guru has no problem with starting off their “business” with lying to other businesses. 

This is like taking Spanish 1 every year in college and complaining that there's only a couple of nuggets of info in the course during your senior year.Sensationalism is using excitement to trick the audience while not providing accurate information. 

it is a real issue....but it is not limited to real estate investing. idiotic behavior dwells in all realms of society. the trick is what do you do.....your experiment may be your initial answer. if your wife is getting results....let her get them(if it's about the business). by allowing that, you are generating the income and very soon you will not need the bank. how do you deal with discrimination. ...you acquire for yourself the very thing you feel is being withheld.

One trick is to put in the lease that every home will be inspected every 3 months.