And in this phase simply put, prioritize comfort and convenience in every decision.

If they do let them stay for a couple of extra days, do not simply take the current rent and divide by 31, do that and double it.

If you want to save some money you can simply look up the owner name on the county website.

I am just exiting the last of my Cleveland stuff and its very evident there as well Just like James Wise said you have a certain price point and area of town and no matter what you do or who you have its a savage business the tenants simply do not live their lives like the landlord does. 

Can the issue be avoided if I simply wait to sell until I leave Japan?   

We simply would change the lease dates to be 1 month to make it a "MTM" lease.

in Sojac these days its pretty much landlord dominated and values only track what a landlord is willing to pay for a given cash flow exit is very limited there is not much in the way of owner occ their anymore.when i first started lending in Jackson about 2003 there was a ton of owner occ flipping going on in sojac and thats all we did.. then the lending rules tightened in that area and the only exit became to sell to landlords and mainly out of state landlords as there simply is not enough local landlords to take up the inventory that has become available there. 

Normally folks in those price points simply dont have the money to fully litigate and no attorney is going to take it on contingency.. so you basically out spend them  and then you guys settle.

There are a few that are either "really close" of simply don't fit other criteria that we want (one example, a group looked quite promising, however when digging into the PPM / OM's we found that the whole thing was based in the Caymans... that's a great place to vacation, and I really liked the Caymans... however I don't want to have to figure out the legal structure of something that's not US based should I ever need to.... so, that's not one were invested in).Feel free to reach out privately - always willing to chat.

But without a value-add strategy you're simply not going to cash flow with that sort of strategy.