Its a little more expensive but when our tenants put in maintenance requests we can simply forward those to our contractors.

This was not simply a slight difference.

You have to analyze those possible outcomes and determine what you are comfortable with. 

Many reasons: to encourage/discourage certain economic behavior, to appease a certain industry lobby or some fellow lawmakers or even sometimes a private individual, to buy votes, to balance economic effects of a new law, as well as simply out of incompetence of our lawmakers.

The walkthrough can play a critical role in determining compensation.

If you simply ask the tenant to resign the lease and then there were issues I could see them claiming deception to coerce a lease signing, so at minimum I'd likely shar with them there was a recent court ruling and you need to revise to make your lease legal.That said even if your lease is void I believe the tenancy would be governed by State law.

It was a law that simply explicitly states something that was lreay allowed.  

I would conduct an inspection, determine the cause, and make the repair.You shouldn't keep tenants who habitually pay late, but there are various factors to think about and I can't go into all of them.

I am trying to understand if there is an easier way to determine A/B/C/D/F class neighborhoods.

(Click to enlarge.)I've created the following decision tree to help determine the best option based on your situation.