By that metric, I would invest up to $8k to reduce or eliminate the utility expenses.  

This will remove a lot of headache and reduce the risk of stupid fights....

You might could reduce rent but add in percentage rent above certain sales hurdles.

Give a reduced rent for a share of the business that is going in.

After getting feedback from local investors, I have decided to refinance my current home (which gets rid of my PMI, pays off a little bit of credit card debt that I have thus reducing my debt to ratio, and gives me nearly 8000 back for the next home), move to a rent free place temporarily, rent out the home, and buy a new home to move into within 6 months and continue that later trend. 

This reduced the amount of time she has to spend on each offer and it did have to be approved by her broker if I remember correctly.This is an experienced agent that has been great to work with as well - not a newbie.  

I don't want to be to basic here, but the biggest key for me is always reducing tenant turnover and limiting property improvements when I do have turnover.

But here's a rough idea of the basic steps involved and what it cost when I did it: STEPS:~ Drain the pool~ Remove pool equipment & cap off water lines~ Remove/cap off any unused electrical~ Knock down the edges around the pool and make holes in the bottom of the pool for drainage ~ Fill pool with "clean fill" material (i.e. soil, gravel, rock, sand, etc)~ Tamp the fill material as you put it in to compact it and reduce the chance of it settling over time once it's all fullCOSTS: (we did the labor ourselves so this is just for the material)~ $450 to buy a jackhammer to knock down the edges around the pool and also to make the holes in the bottom (we could have rented a jackhammer for cheaper but this way we own one and can use it on future jobs)~ $1600 for the fill dirt (it was a lot of dirt!)

Due to unrelated reasons I moved back to Riga, Latvia, where I'm from and this would reduce my spending even more, while raising my income, because I managed to get a better job.

Do it as a way to reduce or eliminate your housing costs.