@Emanuel Ohunwu Home style is not fha, it’s Fannie Mae. 

The discussion is open to all ideas and materials, but so far I've learned to paint with mildew primer in the bathrooms followed with semi-gloss paint, go with American Standard Cadet 3 style toilets, install commercial grid drains, still on the fence about high end laminate flooring or wood style tile, etc. etc. 

I love to give advice about the area and trends and what to expect and how to enter the market and all the stuff investors like.

Has anyone else heard of this, Amazon Enters The Real Estate Game, Launches Smart Tech-Heavy Homebuying Programhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/alyyale/2019/07/23/amazon-enters-the-real-estate-game-launches-smart-tech-hea...

The dryer sounds like they could be testing the boundaries of your management style.  

Not my style, and it'd be a major conflict of interest.

Had me laughing with the style 🙂.

The difficulty with communication may cause the foreigner to feel discriminated against when it can very well be that in true Japanese style, the landlord simply wants to avoid conflict. 

You are making the right choices to make a better life-style for you family for the near future and beyond.

The house is a 4-plex style that is very old and would need quite a bit of work.