If your dumpster is open, your grass gets too high, they don't like your tenants leaving belongings on the deck, you get hit with $500 tickets. 

Senior discounts, student priced movie tickets, ladies night, etc are all discriminatory, but not illegal (in most places).

Simply because the cop won't ticket you for doing 75 in a 70 zone doesn't mean he couldn't if he wanted to.

@Gordon Forbes Find a niche area where you can track sales and just buy/sell tickets when an underpriced item comes up.

Seems like conference was a good way to hear a lot of speakers at once, but if you had some direction to your business then it would not have been worth the ticket price.

If so, why is that and how does that differ from other travel expenses like plane tickets?

I don't see an issue with turnkey  especially for out of state investors who are worried about the cost of big ticket items 6 days after they bought the property.. 

Against our agent’s recommendation, we saw those as big ticket opportunities for price reduction.

@Joel Owens@Sarnen Steinbarth mentioned some of the main ones, but I also like to know about some of the big ticket items.When were the roofs last replacedwhat is the condition of the parking lotwhen was the last interior upgrades and what was done?

My only hope is that the long term vs short term battle doesn’t ruin whole economies before that happens.South Lake Tahoe is now home of the $2,000 parking ticket for STRs.