They want to hit a restaurant or 2, take in some local activities etc.

An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.

Contractors are businesses , how many times do you ask a restaurant to break down the bill into materials and labor ?  

To work San Antonio you have to know what's going on at a block by block level or someone is going to sell you a rental that has a convenience store across the street, a restaurant next door and train tracks two houses down. 

Some COAs will provide all expenses (TV, internet, electricity, water, pest control, building insurance, etc.) and plenty of amenities (pool, hot tub, shuttle service, restaurant on site, gym, etc.), while others provide very minimal value.  

Doing a large motel we sliced up income projections for various activities, rooms, conference room leases, restaurant, bar, salon leases, etc to consolidated statements to use of cash, debt reduction and seasonal adjustments, so it can be brain damage.

My kids are very shy (9 & 5) and I make them tell the waitress what they want at a restaurant.

Lots of restaurants and shopping as well.  

We are also working on new arrangements with a startup car-share; for electronic parking passes; discounts at neighbourhood restaurants; and a reduced rental rate on self-storage during the summer months for our student tenants.As @John K alluded with his fridge magnets, we provide all tenants with the following on move-in:a binder containing information on their home: the house rules, manuals for appliances, call lists for service providers, transit schedule, maps showing local amenities, coupons to local businesses;a cleaning caddy with a started supply of cleaning products, a toilet brush in each washroom, and a toilet plunger;an emergency call list velcro'd on the inside of a kitchen cupboard door.

Try to be in the inner hub of a city......as in walking distance to restaurants, shops, close to six colleges and I get significant bookings from parents who are touring the colleges, moving their child in, visiting them 2x/year, and moving them out at end of year, and then they bring extended family when it's graduation time.