@Teal Lambert Excellent advice Teal, and definitely noted.

Drop your rent to $575 - $600 ... still above the market average, but a better chance it will fill and attract a good tenant.If you are priced above the neighbourhood, you are going to get a disproportionate number of the desperate and unprepared ... neither of whom excel at paying bills and taking care of things.If you drop your ask by $75 - $100 and find a good tenant versus sticking at $675 and remaining empty for another 1-2 months, it will take you 6-months to recover the lost rent. ... and remember, there is a higher chance your $675 tenant will become a problem by then.

@J Scott  Excellent considerations.  

Bakersfield is an excellent market for rentals, as Joseph M said. 

This thread is an excellent example of how real estate is very much a local game.Implicit in the OPs words and tone, as well as most of the responses, is that wood windows are the inferior product and vinyl the premium product.But not the responses from Colleen F., who sees the wood alternative as the premium product.  

Growing population, excellent schools, appreciating property and increasing rents.  

Anthony,I use Microsoft Excel and Access. 

But the huge advantage I have is an excellent W2 income and assets which allow me cash/leverage ability to buy real estate easily and quickly.  

Otherwise you will have to use an excel sheet which to me is HELL!!!!

I tried tracking through excel and not very happy with that approach.