I do not invest in townhomes or condos as the HOA dues cut into your cash flow, you have to deal with the rules and regulations, get permission from the arch committee to do anything, and in down markets, they lose the most the quickest.

You win by buying right, not cutting costs/corners in repairs.

If it were me I would cut that bill unless that's the only way they could have access.

That cuts to the core of how and why Zillow did what they did.

Any safety concerns leaving that outside of the building?

But having an entire, already extremely niche and new venue, even more niche by cutting out families AND pets is just an extremely poor business decision.

If you think there's a risk to your physical safety, bring a couple witnesses.

I have helped quite a few people making sure the numbers are good and measuring twice and cutting once is what you want to do with every deal.

You will own a property that has these risks and 100 more:car falls on leg of customer and he is young and incapacitated and sues you tootenant pours poisonous degreaser into public plumbing an it leaks 200 feet to neighbor properties, they sue yourobbery happens and child is trapped in the bay and survives, the parents sue youteen comes in with their helper dog who bites clients, they sue youfireman falls through the roof in a fire (chemical fire) and is disabled because the roof wasn't to code...Although you are only the landlord you have duties to health and safety of the employees, clients who walk in, and the community.Look up: Ng to the Ghost Ship landlord in East Oakland

Let’s say you can cut the 27.5 year depreciation you’ll use if you do nothing versus 7 years for anything with a “short” life.