I always have at least a $15k budget on our properties, there may be old asbestos siding in good shape but if it's ugly then we're going to paint it, if the porches on the front of the house are ugly, we're changing them, wrap the window trim in metal, throw a new roof on even if the current one isn't yet leaking, parge the foundation, replace the old cabinets, don't use $2/sqft laminate flooring, replace the dang trim if it's been painted over 100 times, remove the ugly wires from the outside of the house and have the cable company install new ones, fix the grading of the yard, trim trees, and repair sidewalks.

But if you've got huge 100+ yr old overgrown trees hitting the house or tearing up sidewalks, driveways, sewer lines & garages this is reasonable. 

Not only does it feel good, but I also notice things from the sidewalk I might miss while driving a car.

(cigarettes) in atrocious Greek to every man that passed him on the sidewalk all day.

I may as well have dropped those same dollar bills into a sidewalk sewage drain (I was actually a little sick to my stomach for a few weeks after that experience)...Anyway, after reading a few of the comments in this thread, I actually feel little bad for ever silently berating and judging lottery players ever since I learned the value of money...Interesting perspective, though: as a few others have pointed out, playing lottery offers some value to the player in the same way non-players spend money on other forms of "fun" / "entertainment".I'm ashamed to admit, but I've blown an embarrassing amount of $ on designer accessories in my life...

I don't need the annual newbie news story of them trying to fry all of my eggs on the sidewalk. :))

Many times they will have couches sitting on the sidewalk.

Police aren't even arresting people shooting heroin on the sidewalk in downtown.

I would not want to be the LL who put grandpa out on the sidewalk!

I can get you a lot for $15,000 with road, sidewalk, water, sewer, electric, fiberoptics, at your front street access.