Smooth ceilings with knockdown walls is a nice combo. if you go smooth use all purpose, not light weight topping.

It gives no weight to the number of bathrooms, size of the house, condition of the house, or even if it's a house vs apartment.

The windows are the original wood and pretty much every one of them has some sort of issue... either rough to open, weights are missing, screens are shot, etc...

Incremental rent raises will let you maintain your current cash flow and gradually improve it, instead of taking on a big loss at turnover.

A gradual increase each year is to be expected.

The police would not do anything more than take the report unless they saw the violations themselves, which they didn't, but citing the number of reports filed gave me some weight with the owner.  

I wondered if my little bathroom could handle such weights on a constant basis. 

I would put more weight on their credit and background check than the DL issue.

And a sliding 7.5” dual bevel mitre saw will get you through 90% of the same thing a 10” will do for less than half the cost and 10lbs less carrying weight.

I'm lobbying my husband that we should raise him to $650 as of January 1.My feeling is that if the tenant's unit is below market, but they're a great tenant, raise it gradually toward market, and consider that you'd probably lose a month if they leave, plus you'd probably have to recondition the unit.