The joy of being a landlord, or not.

Mr. Ranch and I bought a cute little townhouse in 1999.  We moved in, with our two kitties, in the spring. We intended to stay in it for a couple years, sell it, and get something with a yard, garage, etc.  In 2007, after adding two kids and and a dog, we moved into our current house but didn't have any luck selling the townhouse.  We somewhat reluctantly rented it out. We've had some great tenants and some not so great tenants, folks who took care of the property like it was their own and folks who, well, didn't.  Our most recent tenants moved out a couple weeks ago and the property is for sale again.  So far it has been a frustrating process for me--people who see it give us feedback like "it backs up to a street".  Well, yes, that is true.  There is also nothing we can do about it, so maybe some feedback about things we can change would be nice.  We've also had quite a few say things like, "well, I'm not interested in a property like this, but if you put in all new appliances, new flooring, new paint, and lowered the price by 1/3...I'd think about it."  I'm just hoping that sometime in the near future there is a young couple who stumble on it and think "ah, we'll just live here a couple years and then..."