When working with lead I used proper equipment, HEPA filters with a properly fitted half-face mask, and used excellent hygiene (washing/showering, not eating, not smoking, careful handling and so on) and still became lead poisoned. 

While you need to be responsible and not spend money you don’t have, sometimes a nice dinner or a new piece of equipment you have been wanting is all you need to give yourself a boost.

You're the business that keeps accepting overqualified applicants for key positions and keeps losing them to headhunters because they have so many options other than working for your stingy self.So I guess my slumlord bonafides are now fully on disply with this post, but I'll continue treating my tenants like human resources to be fully exploited to the best of my abilities (just like a corporation), and you can keep on looking for exemplars of the finest past conduct to fill your vacancies (people whose next step is buying a house when they get sick of renting, with their good credit and excellent record), and we'll both do well in our market segments, you in your clean Canadian suburbs, me in my Rust Belt ghetto cesspits.Frankly, if I had a tenant applicant show up with the kind of clean record you're looking for where I own low-income rental properties in the 'Burgh, I'd immediately suspect identity theft.

Each tenant sets up an account directly with SmartMove, their identity is verified, and then their background info is made available to you once the service fee is paid.

@Joseph PuglieseIf your business is accrual basis and previously accrued the revenue and included it in taxable income, yes you could write off the bad debts.If cash basis, you don't get to write off revenue you never received as you never were taxed on it in the first place.There are extremely limited exceptions to this, particularly if you're cash basis and recognized the revenue under constructive receipt, however I suspect your fact pattern is not that complicated.You can deduct your normal operating expenses of the rental.Your CPA is best equipped to help you deal with this.

He has a 1car 2nd garage right in the corner of his lot for lawn equipment and no good place for a bigger garage.

That is enough to maintain a lawnmower and other equipment and tools. 

Same identical structure.

As @Steve Vaughan pointed out, full costs for utilities, lawn upkeep, and snow removal are easily offloaded to the tenant, and if things go crazy on the small lawns the fixer landlord can step in with his equipment and save the day before the municipality gets on his back.It's an affordable way for people with ordinary incomes to get into REI.

We each see ourselves in a certain light or identity.