Just one more point to remember is they will typically add back depreciation which reduces the rental income on your tax return but doesn't actually impact your cash flow.

reduced rate or total exemption?

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!)