Points are cheap right now and since adjustments are the opposite they are expensive.

The one I lived in I got cheap rent because it needed some construction fix-up and it was about a year and a half before he got to mine.

Some of those properties are cheap but may not worth the investment to fix them and then you get stuck with a big white elephant...

Buy it cheap, fix it up, then flip it to someone to hold long term.

I might give the extinguisher (it's safety related and cheap), and offer to have the "annual" cleaning done - maybe do some touch-ups or cheap cosmetic items at the time.

You go down to the big box store and in the garden department, they will have big rolls of different grades of black plastic ground cover.Buy something with UV protection and lay that on the ground and cover with the rock you want, or with bark chips.Plain rock is pretty ugly, so you might want to add a few small beds of drought tolerant plants or cactus.Rock isn't cheap and it's hard work to get it spread without destroying your plastic ground cover.

I recently had a chance to take the entry level real estate training from Legacy Education for a cheap price.

The one piece units and plastic surrounds look and feel cheap.  

Cheap MFs like that should be investigated carefully.

Advise buying very cheap.