As exemplified by the recent and likely ongoing surge in evictions across the USA.http://www.boston.com/business/personal-finance/20...Evictions Surge in U.S.Most of these renters were screened and qualified based on all the tools available to PMs and landlords today (credit checks, background checks, eviction checks, etc) so the question remains, why is there an epidemic in Americans qualifying for apartments but not staying within their budgets and obviously spending more on all *other* things than keeping the mere 30% roof over the head?

Hunting for properties is much the same ... most of what you find are merely rocks, but every once in a while there's a gem. 

I merely mentioned the legal aspect in order to make it clear I recognized the distinction and then disregard it from the discussion.  

They merely eat, mate, and sleep.

I'm certain the "inspector" was merely a sales rep of the cleaning company. 

The lazy, crime types, and even the domestic violent types, thrive on chaos, hence, not stable and nightmare tenants.Of course, these are just examples, merely to demonstrate that as a friend, you have insight on whether your friendvis the stable type that cares of the condition where they reside.

You didn't market to these people, you merely "tagged" them. 

My stock speech is this: The main difference between rental RE and any other form of investing for us mere mortals who aren't hedge funders is that this is the only market we can take serious advantage of borrowing leverage.

He is asking for merely 5K, but the question is why? 

He isn't going to toss the entire claim because of one bad item that you are claiming for, he'll merely say that you can't claim that because of xyz.