Unless there were holes in the walls or something that looked obviously damaged by them, I could see the wear and tear defense being accurate.

Lots of students want good, cheap housing and won’t shy away from holes in the wall or other cosmetic issues, and will rent by the bedroom.

Can the issue be avoided if I simply wait to sell until I leave Japan?   

But the damage caused by hanging them (namely puddying the holes and touch up paint, or repainting walls if touching up doesn't work) will come out of their deposit. 

We simply would change the lease dates to be 1 month to make it a "MTM" lease.

For example, a broken fridge door, broken window, holes in walls…Normally I would repair it but what if it’s becoming a constant thing?

One other question I've been researching is that if I simply use a bedroom in my home as an Airbnb to allow passive losses to become active, does that affect the rest of my rentals?

Syndications are simply a business structure where a group of people combine to carry out a business or project.

We completed this project with (2) holes in the back yard and 2 holes inside the home (bathroom and laundry).

in Sojac these days its pretty much landlord dominated and values only track what a landlord is willing to pay for a given cash flow exit is very limited there is not much in the way of owner occ their anymore.when i first started lending in Jackson about 2003 there was a ton of owner occ flipping going on in sojac and thats all we did.. then the lending rules tightened in that area and the only exit became to sell to landlords and mainly out of state landlords as there simply is not enough local landlords to take up the inventory that has become available there.