Purchase price: $52,000 Cash invested: $117,188 Fix and Flip that needed to be completely cleaned out, all new flooring, walls, bathrooms, and kitchen.

The simplest and most common answer is to go electric. 

Another option is just doing a clean break with the tenant.

Tenants only want a simple clean, quiet and safe place to live and swimming pools with a bunch of brats is noisy and dangerous.

There are places near Modesto where you can but 200 acres of beautiful land with a lake front for something like $135,000 (if I am correct), and I have a friend who looked into buying the land, but the cost to bring in electric is insane and then you neeed to dig a well and install pumps, storage tanks and even 4 inch pipes for fire hydrants.

Go ahead and clean or replace with new, any window curtains or blinds.Add up the cost of materials, and charge him a bill for them.

Without a cost segregation study, you would depreciate the $12M over a 39 year period, $307,692 per year.Within this office building, you have assets such as paved parking, specialty electrical, finishes, carpeting, landscaping, sidewalks, office furniture, electrical systems, plumbing systems, etc.

Trees over roof at minimum mean probably 2x per year gutter cleaning, but also pose issues in storms.  

Purchase price: $95,000 Cash invested: $23,000 Very clean 3 bed 1 bath house that needed no work to begin renting it out.

I just set up a YourPorter account, and it looks like that should simplify some of the cleaning things.