Our initial meeting is free but I am not the one conducting it and it is made clear that the intro meeting is informational on both sides of the coin - we learn about you, you learn about us.Anyone can book a paid consultation directly with me for tax advice should they want to skip the intro and get right to brass tacks (pun intended).I don't believe anyone should pay for an interview but, as Steven said, us professionals should not give away free advice either, especially when we have clients paying for our expertise.

(pun intended). 

My marriage counseling rate of $150 a hour is on the house for this one, no pun intended. :)

No pun intended haha

(pun intended)You should not even entertain the idea as long as you are ship bound and out of pocket for that length of time.With that being said- I know people who are stationed over seas and manage their properties and it is no issue whatsoever, but in the vast majority of those cases not only did they have a direct line of communication with the states, but they also had the infrastructure in place (banking, contractor, plumber, etc.) prior to going overseas.

The link you shared seems fishy, no pun intended.

Wow, Will, there's a lot of moving parts here, no pun intended.

Plus this crap, pun intended, happens in properties and wont ever stop.

I'm not sure that "I had an allergy" is going to hold much weight.Good luck but I'd be getting hold of someone real quick that can tell you if this is a house or a mouse - pun intended. :-)

So, arguing facts is useless, as we can all seemingly support our facts.In fact, if most people on this thread were arguing for regulation, I'm pretty positive I'd be arguing the other direction, just for the fun of it, and to prove that there's no "right" answer based on the available data.While I have an opinion on the issue, I'm the first to admit that if I were to make the rules, all the rules I could make might be useless to help the problem (and I think most of us are in that situation -- I don't think anyone has a silver bullet (pun intended :) to solve the problem).