From the way things are going, I project maintenance calls alone would eat up to 30%-40% of gross rental income. 

This means you have a few options.Option 1 - you pay the whole bill yourself and eat the cost of water/sewer for the tenant.Option 2 - you let Guardian continue billing the tenant for their % of the usage. 

Do I eat it or bill the tenant.

The terrace is becoming the center of the apartment - people eat, relax, work, sunbath, lounge, invite friends over, practice yoga, you name it, in a space like this.

Chicago realtors should mandate that owners selling a 2-4 unit should prove the legality of those units before listing by supplying a zoning cert; it's a ~$150 cost that they have to eat anyway.

But I’m stuck with it now, and I don’t want to eat in trouble down the road for posting noticed within the grace period called out in the lease.

Watch out the BP hounds might eat you alive for that 

I will eat the cost of my home yard care to skip the 1099.

We found out when a renter mentioned the smell, it is very hard to tie it back to a specific person so we are going to eat that cost. 

I watched a guy walking down the street eating a bag of potato chips...he ate the last one and threw the bag on the ground as he was walking...there is no cure for that...not all the tax breaks in the world can change human behavior.