I also believe that having a comprehensive set of rules is proactive in regards to preventing maintenance problems and retaining good tenants since everybody is agreeing to the same standards of conduct. 

Now I or Account Closed may not be able to cite the MREC regulation that prevents this...it could be a regulation, it could be determined by case law, or it could have been enacted by congressional act, or as is the most common case it is set out in a guidance memo by the MREC that is distributed to brokers, then brokers in turn tell us how to act in the market place....but it is the case, as we have this type of stuff drilled into us over and over again by instructors in our CE classes, and our brokers.

It makes me wonder how they were screened, and if the reason they aren't renting someplace else is that there is an issue that would prevent them from doing so.  

It's hardly political, "unjust enrichment " exists to prevent people making windfall profits off obvious mistakes that don't resemble normal contracts.

yeah, the EAA air show is going on right now!

At the end of the day it should always be remembered that this is a business relationship, not a friendship, and while there's nothing that prevents you from being friends or friendly with tenants, my experience is that too much closeness creates more problems than it solves.

I understand how that would apply to the Tulsa trip, but if I'm travelling to NYC specifically to get ideas for my Chicago property (whether through meet-ups, trade shows, etc.) instead of to purchase a property, does the rule prevent me from doing that as well?

He ran an ad hoc gas line made of PVC pipe from his forced air heater along the kitchen wall to hook up a gas range when the kitchen was only set up for an electric range.

Its an issue in a multi-unit house with one forced-air heating system that blows smoke through the entire house."

For the most part your timeline is correctRent is do on the first and is past due on the secondYou can have a grace period until the 5th if you choose but it does not mean the rent is not late on the 2ndYou can actually post on the 2nd as a grace period does not prevent you from doing soI would only offer "cash for keys" in Texas as a last resort.