Got it all done and I brought up twice that all that's left is payment (5K) and I'll be out of your hair.Then started the hemming and hawing, oh, well I have a few checks going through, etc.

One tenant left the tank almost empty when they left- I filled it to the cost of $600.

The right side is the top of the pipe and the left is the bottom of the pipe.

Takes great care of the home.You also have to factor since she had been their 17 years if I raised rent to market and she left I would probably have to spend over $5k to update the unit to get market rent, commission to realtor for placing new tenant, 1-2 month vacancy and then how do you know your next tenant will be as good as your last?

Then to say a judge would accept that as proof of where it was left, is unlikely.

You give up any equity gain in appreciation (ok, not really likely in your properties but still..)And at the end of it, all you really have left is a note.

Then what is left is applied to the rent. 

And that is always a possibility; your tenant could have been away somewhere on vacation and been mugged, losing wallet and ID and being lefty beaten badly in some strange place. 

I lived there myself for 2 years, so I have an idea of the amount of noise you can hear, and I think it's reasonable for an apartment.We've never had a problem before, and the downstairs tenant never complained until after the mom basically left.. I

I ended up doing an eviction and soon after another tenant just up and left. I