Establishing new rules and regulations policy

[Robert Nason]

I recently purchased a 12 unit apartment building in Lowell Massachusetts. This property is unlike any thing else Ive purchased, it's more bread and butter and the former owners lacked in management skills and did not have any policies and procedures in place. Most of the tenants are good hard-working people but there are others who continue to abuse the building and leave trash everywhere and have zero control of their children. I've sent what I think are very standard rules and regulations and oddly the nine tenants that we enjoy and have no problems with all signed the rules and regs without any hesitation. The three trouble tenants all refused to even acknowledge the rules and regulations. They are all tenants at will. They continue to play the TVs and music exceptionally loud and do not care that tenants and I have let them know multiple times it is not acceptable. They continue to smoke in the units stating that the former owners never had an issue with it. They allow their children to leave trash and candy wrappers and drinks in the common area. They have scribbled on the walls and used the brick siding as their own personal chalkboard. I'm going to start evictions and planning on sending them all eviction notices on January 1, 2016. My wife thinks we should do them one tenant at a time. I think we should cut them all lose now. It's not a money issue at all as the building more than covers the loss of these three tenants. My wife's concern is that these tenants will band together creating a legal issue for us. Any thoughts?