With M2M he wouldn't be breaking any lease terms and he had the choice to move.

Shoot the guy, put the fire out, call the coroner to pick up the body.

They often leave the area after working for months (just to take a break or to wait out a market downturn) but are fairly sure they'll be back and need a place to keep their stuff. 

Reality is no body knows what the environment will look like in 6 months or a year from now.  

Or am I breaking some kind of law?

It wouldn’t even break even without it.

A PM will make or break the property

A lot of choices for this too.It's very uncommon for the mixer valve housing to go bad (they can leak but don't often break)The joys of home ownership...

There are legitimate negative macro-economic factors that deter folks from Chicago, but when you break it down by neighborhoods, there are still tons of areas that have positive net migration, job growth and large enough spreads that more than offset our lovely tenant-friendly environment :). 

Always an excellent way to break into REI!