Property Management
One of the world's most famous bizarre rental listings lets guests spend the night inside what?
A. A giant shoe
B. A retired airplane
C. A giant potato
D. A lighthouse
What is a (C. Giant potato)? The Big Idaho Potato Hotel is a 6-ton potato-shaped Airbnb in Boise, Idaho.
The average American home has this many gallons of water flowing through its pipes every single day.
A. 200 gallons
B. 300 gallons
C. 500 gallons
D. 1,000 gallons
+100 Points) What event did Cleopatra live closer to? Moon Landing or the Great Pyramids?
What is (B. 300 gallons)?
+100 (Moon Landing)
This federal law requires disclosure and specific work practices when remodeling units built before 1978.
*Bonus +100 points (Did we land on the moon?)
What is the Lead-Based Paint Disclosure?
*Bonus +100 points (NO!!)
This financial statement shows a property's income and expenses over a specific period.
+Bonus 500 points) What is a group of pandas called?
What is a profit and loss (P&L) statement?
+Bonus 500 points) Embarrassment.
A property manager in Texas once discovered a tenant had secretly been running this type of business out of a suburban rental unit.
A. Illegal casino
B. Dog grooming business
C. Petting zoo
D. Tattoo parlor
What is (C. Petting zoo)?
Which building contains the highest residential apartment in the world? (Closest to the number of wins)
+Bonus 100 Points) What is the largest desert in the world by area?
What is the Burj Khalifa at 2,717 feet up?
+Bonus 100 points (Antarctica) because a "desert" is about precipitation, not heat.
This household appliance failure is responsible for more insurance claims in the U.S. than house fires.
+Bonus 100 Points) Are humans closer in size to the entire universe or the smallest possible thing in physics?
What is a water heater failure?
+Bonus 100 Points) Humans are closer in size to the Observable Universe than the smallest thing, by a scale of 300 million times.
This is a home remodeling project that has the single highest average return on investment?
What is a garage door replacement? With an average of a 268% ROI
One of the earliest tools for this everyday financial task?
+100 Points) What is older? Oxford University or the Aztec Empire?
What is (Abacus)?
+100 Points) Oxford University, by 229 years.
In Japan, landlords need government permission just to
A) Filing a police report
B) Evicting
C) Conducting a property inspection
D) Raising the tenant's rent
What is B) Eviction
Largest monthly rent on record for a single unit? (Closest to the number wins)
What is ($1,000,000/month)? It is for the rare luxury lease for the duplex penthouse at One57 in Manhattan on Billionaire's Row.
This common pest can survive being frozen, decapitated for up to a week, and radiation doses that would kill a human many times over.
What is a cockroach?
Popcorn ceilings became popular partly because this feature made them cheap and fast to install, which contained this now-banned building material.
+Bonus 100 Points) Name the easternmost, westernmost, and northernmost states in the US
What is asbestos?
+Bonus 100 Points) Alaska, Alaksa, Alaska
This non-cash expense spreads the cost of a capital improvement, like a new roof, over its useful life.
What is depreciation?
This real Los Angeles Airbnb tenant became infamous for living rent-free for over __ days and demanding $100,000 to leave.
A) 290 days
B) 425 days
C) 570 days
D) 720 days
What is C) 570 days?
Which animal could legally be requested as an emotional support animal under the Fair Housing Act?
A. Peacock
B. Pig
C. Snake
D. All of the above
What is (D. All of the above)
The most common cause of house fires?
What is a dryer vent fire?
What requirements are not needed to be considered a room?
A. An emergency egress window or exterior door
B. A minimum ceiling height
C. A closet
D. Minimum floor area
What is (C. closet)?
The word "salary" comes from this Latin word for the substance Roman soldiers were sometimes partially paid in.
A. Olive Oil
B. Wheat
C. Salt
D. Sugar
What is (C. Salt)?
Which of these is the longest?
A. The Great Wall of China
B. The Amazon River
C. The blood vessels in a body
D. The Earth's equator
What is (C. The blood vessels in the body). Stretching 2.5 times around the Earth
The "Legend of Paul" keep his power on for ___ amount of time by telling them "the check is in the mail"?
A) 9 months
B) 1 Year
C) 4 Years
D) 10 Years
What is over (D. 10 Years)?
A dripping faucet losing just one drop per second wastes over this many gallons of water in a year.
A. 1,000 gallons
B. 3,000 gallons
C. 6,000 gallons
D. 500 gallons
What is (B. 3,000 gallons)?
What does GFCI stand for?
What is a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter?
This ancient civilization is credited with inventing double-entry bookkeeping, the accounting method still used today, formalized by a monk in the 1400s.
A. Ancient Egypt
B. Ancient Greece
C. Italy
D. China
What is Italy?
Which of these is technically a fruit, botanically speaking?
A) Carrot
B) Tomato
C) Broccoli
D) Potato
What is B) Tomato