Property Management
This is the oldest known "landlord" arrangement on record — a Sumerian clay tablet from around 2000 BC that documents one of these
What is a lease/rental agreement?
The average American home has this many gallons of water flowing through its pipes every single day — enough to fill a small swimming pool over a year.
A. 200 gallons
B. 300 gallons
C. 500 gallons
D. 1,000 gallons
What is (B. 300 gallons)?
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)?
What is the record for the world's highest residential apartment?
What is the Burj Khalifa at 1,500 feet up?
This household appliance failure is responsible for more insurance claims in the U.S. than house fires.
What is a water heater/plumbing failure?
This is the home remodeling project with the single highest average return on investment?
What is a garage door replacement?
One of the earliest tools for this everyday financial task?
What is (Abacus)?
Longest recorded time a tenant lived at a property without paying rent.
What is over 10 years?
Largest monthly rent on record for a single unit?
What is ($100,000/month)
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.
What is asbestos?
This ancient civilization is credited with inventing double-entry bookkeeping, the accounting method still used today, formalized by an Italian monk in the 1400s.
What is Italy?
This is the single most bizarre "emotional support animal" ever reportedly brought onto a commercial flight.
What is a peacock?
This is the record for the longest-standing continuously rented apartment lease in the world.
What is a multi-generational lease?
The most common cause of house fires?
What is a dryer (dryer vent fire)?
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)?
The strangest rental listings ever posted was for what type of property?
What is a missile silo home?
A dripping faucet losing just one drop per second wastes over this many gallons of water in a year — enough to fill a hot tub several times over.
A. 1,000 gallons
B. 3,000 gallons
C. 6,000 gallons
D. 10,000 gallons
What is (B. 3,000 gallons)?