They are not your tenants they are occupying your property you have no reason to work with them you simply be nice and ask them to pack up and go.

Or are you able to stick to your guns and simply tell the tenant, tough crap, the lease is the lease.

To put it simply, I’ve been told that I do not have enough skin in the game myself in order to cash out some equity.We bought the seller financed with only a $30,000 down payment.

You are simply not informed to see how this chain works. 

Have a 1960s 30 unit single story motel where we are coming up on some end of life issues: the cast iron plumbing is disintegrating underneath bathrooms, radiators are starting to leak, electrical is in poor condition, and just today, discovered significant termite damage affecting multiple rooms.

If the LLC doesn’t file it’s own taxes you can simply buy in your own names. 

Our agent is communicating to us that the market is simply slow right now, and that we need to be patient.

It sets you apart and actually gives clients something of value rather than simply seeing them as a wallet to get into.  

We all need to eat and all but, "I" would simply say to hell with the others and do what I suggested.Now, about lunch ...

To put it simply, I’ve been told that I do not have enough skin in the game myself in order to cash out some equity.We bought the seller financed with only a $30,000 down payment.