A company would be punished by the feds and/or the market bc of perception.

It's a business, being a landlord, and the business demands that respect or it coldly will punish those who neglect the business of it.

But know going in, ignorance will be severely punished as commercial financing weighs as heavily, if not more, on the operator than the asset themselves.

Might use a pro next time unless I feel up for some punishment. 

If you simply mention or speak bad about it you are subject to the worst possible punishment.  

For others, the novices buying like a novice, not putting in the work, oh-yes, they are going to reap the punishment of there lazy approach far more than in recent years past, a raising of the bar on professionalism but I see that as a good thing.

LOLIf I said that I dont wanna go to college to my dad so many decades ago, I don't know what kind of punishment I would get LOL LOL it's almost like college or die situation. lol

That was later struck down by a higher court - so they countered with  "enforcement of untidy lawn ordinance"  punishable by whatever the judge decrees.  

Yes getting a lot of negativity from BP on this, but I am probably a sucker for punishment.

If it were my kids and there was bad water I would own you right now and take it to court versus fighting you over 700 bucks and then have the judge throw down a harsher punishment.