I personally would send a strong letter that if rent is more than X days later, I will be starting eviction proceedings, if I wanted to curb the behavior (of course after getting advice from my attorney).

Spend your dollars upstairs in the kitchen, bathrooms and curb appeal.Mike

The current deal that was brought to my attention by my realtor is a Duplex for 55K needs some cosmetics, but I made a curb offer so I could get a walk through.

I am fairly handy and would enjoy fixing a place up and giving it more "curb appeal".Here's a spreadsheet I put together with 3 scenarios.

It's YOUR property and curb appeal at stake here, and IMO the LL should do this.I did for my rentals, as "Their perception of good enough never matched mine", and moaning month-after-month just destroys the relationship.Years ago I rented and the contract did not address the issue, but the LL moaned about it. 

If it is the former, then start with the biggest; if the latter perhaps start with the smallest one as knowing one is paid off will give you a confidence boost that you can do it.

Save 10% by buying everything sales tax-free, save 3-5% by charging everything to the right credit card, save 1-5% with a click-through cashbackmonitor and save 10-50% in income taxes by making everything a write-off via the proper entity OR leverage the purchases into business credit cards that boost your entity's PAYDEX score!

Whatever would greatly improve the curb appeal..What do you guys think?

If you got decent interest rates a 6% cap rate with 4X leverage and a 3% interest boosts the return substantially.

And a tax shelter will boost your income Use student loans to pay down the principal of your mortgage it’ll be a lower interest-rate which will save you money which is money earned