They'll move in and see problems and complain about the smallest, weird things.Whereas, if you wait and show it while it still smells like fresh paint and the carpets have stripes from the vacuum cleaner, in their minds the place is in great shape and they will overlook things.It's the same idea as curb appeal.

Next lease you are starting fresh and now it becomes fair and equitable to charge a tenant for damage that you could clearly attribute to them.

Or maybe they will be happy to take all those properties back so they can write fresh loans on them all over again!

Every tenant loves to smell fresh paint when they are shown an apartment... and if it is greige walls it will pop the molding which is music to a professional.1.

Fresh corn on the cobb in the corn trucks.. going to the farms and buying fresh cheese and meats etc.   

Maybe I should just do that and start fresh in my first house......

Take down all the existing ads, post a new ad (re-write it) with different photos to give it a fresh look. 

The tenants will claim stuff was present at move in and you need to have document of the condition at move in to prove yes/no..... otherwise its a fresh start now and you eat the damage they did before you owner itGet your lease in order and give it to them now, so they know what it will be when its time to renew.....

The fresh paint smell gives new applicants the impression that the place is in good shape, too.I'd charge a reasonable fee for getting the garden in shape, as that was their responsibility.At any rate, that's what I think is fair.  

If this tenant is fresh out of school then he really hasn't had a chance to build a credit history.