Because our tenants were so accommodating through that process, we bought them each of bottle of $10 wine (Hogue Late Harvest Riesling to be exact) for Christmas.

@Jeffrey B ScottSo you get a squeaky clean client who passes all the checks and pays monthly, the day after he signs your year lease his wife leaves him, he hits the bottle and loses his job.....and don’t tell me this can’t happen$12k up front is a gift horse , structure the legalities so you can use the money, if your lawyer says it can’t be done, find a new lawyer !

I wanted to jump in, but dicieded to have a bottle of wine, i will put my thoughts & memory together. from what i've read all of you are right, minus a few.

Leave a bottle of laminate wood cleaner when you get new tenants and let them know that only that type of product can be used to clean the floors.

You become the custodian, trustee, administrator, chief cook, and bottle washer.I have an SD 401k plan that was set-up by my CPA using the prototype plan he uses at his firm.

How about a stack of decorative envelopes to put rent checks in.Vacuum cleaners are good.Maybe a good quality pen with the rent due date printed on it in fancy lettering.If your rentals are in a war zone, perhaps a bottle of ripple would be a suitable yuletide gift.The possibilities are endless. :-)

Only thing we provide is bottled water.Exceptions:Longer stays (10'ish days +)- Bottle of wineSpecial occasion (bdad, anniversary, etc)- bottle of wine.Not necessary but always adds great touch.

No Kool-Aid, just water bottles and pizza.

Go to the store and purchase a spray bottle.  

This guy promised he could build Noah's Ark, I told him to show me, first 2 days he was amazing.  3rd day, around 1 on Friday, I walked into to rehab, saw an empty bottle of whiskey and became concerned.