My application letter says that if blinds are in the unit, they are not included in the rent and I don't replace them if they break.In practice, I've always gone ahead and had new, or relatively new, mini blinds in every window when a new tenant arrives. 

Maybe @Steve Vaughan but they know the rent and specs before they arrive!

This is probably one of the questions that you are asking yourself as you arrive in the corner of the web.

Good customer service and everything arrived on time and as we expected.

The fact that you are considering them so thoroughly in your thought process tells me that you have no reason to second guess whatever decision you arrive at. 

I wonder if maybe I'll have better luck once Spring arrives. 

There's been a slight drop in rental prices across the board because of the interest rates driving more buyers into the market, but renters and general rental prices won't lag much longer with either the higher rate or the foreclosures that are soon to arrive at some point.

I didn’t have a contract with me, so she agreed to meet me in the morning.The next day I arrived at my property to do a few touch-ups, always keeping a watchful eye out for her car.An hour later I saw her car in the driveway, and a gentleman left the house, got into his pickup and drove away.I went over to the house and knocked, the door was open and she was sitting on an old paint bucket.

Even though we haven't arrived yet, my wife is a broker in Michigan as well as three other states. 

Gave them extra time to live in the space (cabinets were going to take 8-10 weeks to arrive so we let them live in the space for an extra 4 weeks while they looked for their next space.