And they tend to not be the ones who just skip out without paying the last month's rent.So, in the end, you have those with good scores who will keep in good standing without need for threat of lowered scores, and then you have those with not so good scores who have already proven they don't care much about the scores.I do use that threat with all tenants right up front - that I will report to credit bureaus if payments are missed(those who have bad and are fixing it are the ones we want to target primarily here), but as I said, in practice it's not going to prevent the bad ones from doing things the bad way.

Knowing that the threat wasn't working, she pleaded that she had no place to go without the security deposit, so gotta be very very careful with these tenants.I ask myself "Do I trust this person enough to let them live in my property worth $XX,XXX for only $XXX in rent/month?"

Your notice is a threat to them, and they feel certain that they can find a better place to live for less.

A murder would definitely qualify as a threat, I would think.

To not steer this threat off the wrong course, we're talking about wealth made from RE.

They know that the police must have a search warrant to enter the property and threats by a landlord aren't going to faze them.You could stand outside and take pictures of the druggies and their license plates as they come to pickup their drugs.

Even though we are not realtors, we can do this in our area because the Property Appraiser here is online and shows all properties sold.Next, we go to Zillow and Cyber homes.

Sure a Tenant can cause you issues but in my area the threat of being kicked out of the program goes both ways.

Only problem I see with that strategy is that if any other country takes a tactic out of the U.S. playbook and decides to invade us for our oil...of course, there are only a handful of countries that could possibly be a major threat to us on our soil, but there are enough nukes out there in the hands of countries that would be desperate for oil that the possibility is scary...

The homeowner then figures they are better off just going through foreclosure-once the bank takes the house they are able to walk away with no threat of being sued for the difference.