In my county in Texas the constable hires movers and they take their stuff to storage and they have to pay to get it out.

So low-flow shower heads, bricks inside toilet tanks, and CFL's don't really help us.

This happened with storage units a long time ago - for awhile Wall St started buying all of the properly zoned land and drove down the yield to where their investors were happy but that fewer and fewer local small investors could compete.In the end this is the price of the free market.

She didn't turn the water on to the tank when she returned so the handyguy found it and found out what she had done.

The property also has a detached 2 car garage with seperate storage.

As far as aquariums go, the first time you are left with a ton of dead rotting fish in a huge tank, you will make sure your lease says, No Aquariums Allowed (friend's rental, not mine).

At the same time, lenders shouldn't say they can get something done, when they know they probably can't, and waste a borrowers time, and can tank a project.

If need be, hire movers and move half your stuff and all the little stuff into storage.

These properties consist of over 800 sfrs, apts and storage units.

Or the Uverse folks at Ma Bell, I mean AT&T or similar.Or for Internet, you get one big pipe into the building and either just put a simple router and give each one a cable in the hand, or you go more fancy with a router/firewall combo that gives you three separate networks etc.You could then even go that far to offer other tenants Internet at some good price, although you have to be careful with the super suckers and Netflix watchers.Otherwise:- Motion detecting switches in bathrooms, storage areas, maybe kitchens with shut-off timer- Used furniture if you need to replace.