When you are across country on vacation and during a bus tour of the city you wonder how much are the properties going for out there and decide to check out the real estate section of the local paper... before long your loved one catches you and accuses you of working on vacation.

It always depends on how you crunch the numbers though; I have been accused of calculating too low on vacancy/repairs, while you may be very conservative!

@Les Jean-Pierre The news from New York about AirBNB is interesting and likely trend setting.I read last week that Stephen Ross of The Related Group has asked his residential property managers and tenants to keep an eye out for AirBNB use in their properties.As the deep pockets (aka bigger), large owners such as The Related Group likely want to avoid being accused by NYS of supporting a concept that requires regulation.Many cities globally follow New York's lead on policy (e.g., the smoking ban in restaurants). 

If you choose not to learn from it, don't confuse the issue here with false accusations.

Exactly what gives you such authority to dictate what any of us are or are not until we bring evidence to your "court" to "prove" our innocence of your accusations? 

I've often noticed people accuse others of what they do themselves.

I think the contractor themselves are a bit weary of this tenant and being accused of doing damage so it would be beneficial to both of us.We do have provisions to do inspections but haven't been good at doing them.

My intent for this posting was to affirm that the charges I'm seeing is the norm, not to make false accusations.

Somebody wanting to sue for you backing out of a bad deal or accusing you of selling them a property with defects like unknown termite damage).

I'm always bummed when I see this sort of speech from otherwise respectable businessmen.Just a word of advice: if you're going to chastise someone for "painting with a broad brush," you may want to avoid accusing anyone with conservative views of getting their views from FOX News.