There is no way to predict when a toilet will break or a garbage disposal will go out or when a tenant will put a hole in the wall.

If the appraiser used a market derived expense ratio it's either because the owner has garbage income/expense data or they aren't running it properly and an underwriter would want to see what it would look like as a market deal.

Tenant called to tell me someone had put a bag with a dead dog in his garbage can that had been set out by the road for pick up.

Habitability generally means "conditions that are fit for living“.A habitable residence is described as one that includes hot water, flushing toilets, non-leaking roofs and walls, heat, doors that lock, and a place to dispose of garbage, among many other things.

I created my first lease (garbage) but from advice given in these forums (copy and pasted key statements and rules) it started improving.

Take garbage bags and lots of old towels because oil tanks are never " empty"  

They are garbage.

He wasn't being malevolent, he was only thinking about his immediate need and trying to do the least amount of shovelling possible.Earlier this summer, I just happened to be passing by one of our student houses when I noticed the neighbour from across the street, who is in her mid 70s, pushing their garbage dolly to the curb.  

I have another condo that covers nothing except the gated entrance and park for $125 a month :) and send a letter to my parents every time the tenant leaves their trashcan out side after garbage comes.

I work at a custom cabinet shop and I've had to deal with these pieces of garbage.