@Padric Lynch landscaping & maintenance

In this case you would want to include water, electric, landscaping, and pest control in the rent amount.

But it's a feasible long-term option for California and surrounding states.I believe the biggest impact will be with landscape irrigation.

@Marcel Couch Classes for commercial properties are different than residential 1-4 family properties.Also, you'll find the concept of classes for 1-4 family vary greatly as there's no standard and everyone has different opinions.Our LOGICAL opinion is that it all revolves around the tenant pool for a property.Here's our definitions of Class A-D, with the understanding that we are playing statistics and probabilities (there are always exceptions):Class A: 680+ FICO, white-collar to high-blue collar, very stable career/income, usually some savings, takes very good care of rental propertyClass B: 600-680 FICO, low white-collar to mid blue-collar, stable employment/income, often some savings, takes good care of rental propertyClass C: 550-600 FICO, mid blue-collar to no-collar, decent stable employment/income, lives paycheck-to-paycheck, 50/50 on taking decent care of rental property or being hard on it.Class D: <550 FICO, no-collar, unstable employment/income, often only SSI and/or Secion 8, often doesn't deal with banks, usually hard on a rental property.The tenant class will eventually affect the property, which eventually affects the neighborhood class, which affects the contractor & PMC class willing to work there.An abundance of housing will typically lead to a lowering of the overall class in that area.A shortage of housing will lead to gentrification and improvement of overall class in that area.

The entire house was renovated and the landscaping was redone.

On your list should be a plumber, electrician, roofer (for repairs and for eventual replacement), carpenter/handyman, painter, sheetrock repair, landscaper/gardener. 

I would like some statistical analytics.For me right now I just look at the employment rate and see how fair that is.

High fixed expenses for a 200 lot park despite how many lots are actually occupied (i.e - landscaping 55 acres, security, on-site property manager, off-site PM).

In an un-official retirement community (almost all houses 2bd/2ba, around 1k sq ft, quite a few of these outside Atlanta). estimated rent is around $1650. house does not need any updates, looks in very good condition. low HOA ($40/month) that pays for outside landscaping. 

We have done a lot of work to the place, including a new electrical panel, replacing some questionable wiring, adding a second washer/dryer, some updated flooring, new interior paint, replacing several fixtures and updates to the exterior staircase and landscaping.