PROPERTY CALENDAR check market rent on all units x February 15 property taxes due (1 of 2) x March 15 school taxes due (2 of 2) x March 15 water bill due (1st quarter) x March 15 replace smoke detector batteries x April 1 clean gutters x May 1 open basement windows, remove salt buckets x May 1 water bill due (2nd quarter) x June 30 city trash bill x June 30 school taxes due (1 of 2) x September 15 water bill due (3rd quarter) x September 15 property taxes due (2 of 2) x September 15 replace smoke detector batteries x October 1 close basement windows x October 1 clean gutters / rake lawn x November 1 salt buckets x November 15 begin heating basement December 1 add salt socks to gutters December 1 water bill due (4th quarter) December 15The x is added when I've done the task. 

One day you will love this then the next you will be pulling your hair out.I highly suggest putting in your lease tenant checked all smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors.I also make them write that they will keep working batteries in them at all times.This will be like any relationship,no two people are the same.What works with one door might not work with the next.I will HIGHLY SUGGEST READING Managing rental properties by Brandon Turner !!!

Also the smoke detector batteries twice a year. 

I think its muratic acid , not sulfuric acid  ( its been a while)  sulfuric acid is battery acid .  

3 smoke detectors went in, the new thermostat (which needs batteries, have to remember to bring some tomorrow!)

I would also look into getting a battery back up for the pump.

They have a code of ethics and passed a battery of tests to be certified.Paul

Reading about others' success here has me feeling super excited about Real Estate again as all the business done in the last 8 years left me taking a couple months off to recharge my batteries. 

how about finding that the tenant was using a set of battery jumper cables attached to the overhead electrical wire and wired  into the breaker box in order to bypass the electric meter.

My tenants change light bulbs, batteries, and furnace filters.