Many of the people moving here seem to be employed in the service industries and have a hard time affording rents.

The tenant wanted 1 bill to pay every month and was willing to pay the higher rent that included cable TV service. 

Your time is worth something and if you decide later to add PM services it has already be included. 

However, the way I understand that rule is that we should reduce revenues by 50% to get to your cash flow before debt service or NOI number.

I think if you can learn a lot of the tricks of the big ticket trades, plumbing/electric/HVAC aka fixing the common problems, then you can survive a lot of costly service calls.  

Our lawyer is a friend and barters services with us, so that wasn't an issue for us, and my husband refused to give her one cent.

My question is can any tenant deny the pest control service?

Let me know if I can be of service or if you need me to send you some listings with your criteria.

So only thing I see happening is you creating paperwork for the sake of paperwork. also, when you occupy a rental unit, it becomes your primary residence and you no longer can claim normal rental property deductions on the unit for the days in the year the property is not in service as a rental property.

See what real investors have to say.Visit/Tour: Even just asking about coming to see the operation can give you a ton of info on how they actually handle customer service.