Personal battles, breakups, divorce - all things of life but not the things of landlording. 

We have two turnovers today - one after 8 years and the other one is a bad breakup after 11 months.

I've never had to separate electric but I've had to bring up new risers to apartments with one circuit and break up the wiring into a number of separate circuits.

And yes, it can be a little messy when untangling things if they break up but we have policies in place for those situations.

Cause here’s this term I put on all my leases that would make us go through this whole thing all over again anyway, just trying to save us both time, etc.I’ve also had people not want to put their significant other on the lease cause they move in and break up or leave them and this apartment is their new chapter.

The IRS has an answer for those who would break up a large transaction into a lot of small ones: it's called the step transaction doctrine.  

Also, if you break up, you want to be protected.  

For instance, this may sound trivial but instead of white switches go with higher end Nickel or Bronze plates, and by higher end I mean $5-$10 dollars a piece at the high end...they break up the visual plane and catch peoples eye.

What happens if you break up in a year and move back to the Bay?

What happens when you break up?