BONUS:Any information on murdered tenants and stories about experiences with that.

One other thing I would do is mystery shop the PM’s with email and phone call response to a listing similar to yours.

Easy, just allude to a mysterious out of town entity that is above you in the management heirarchy.

It is a shame that they are allowed to get away with murder.

I believe it's the worst or in the top 5 for murder per capitahttps://www.cbs17.com/news/rocky-mount-murder-rate...https://www.movoto.com/blog/top-ten/dangerous-smal...Feel free to reach out if you'd like to know more.

I not going to either in this post, because I want to let you (and other readers) really nail down the initial concept of depreciation, which hopefully is now not as mysterious as previously thought.How much do I love real estate and tax and planning?

Fortuntaly, I was in posession of a copy of a copy of a copy of a lease from Wisconsin Legal Blanks a mysterious mentor lady sent me (I never met her in person) - WLB turned out to be a gold mine of legel documents and other supplies for landlords.I was almost perplex when my new tenants sent me their first rent checks!

Do you justify murder because its illegal like speeding?  

But when a tenant trashed the place after receiving a pay-or-quit notice (Broken windows, ruined carpets, mysterious smears on the walls) they paid for damn near every repair after the 1000k deductible.  

@Joel Owens  its just like anyone who has developed a condo unit of any kind you must do a reserve study up front and then fund it and keep it funded.. this is no mystery that there will be capex.... as we know there are companies that specialize in reserve studies I have have done two condos as the developer and paid for these and funded them...