Call them up pretending to be a potential renter and just ask them what the rents are.  

Both will be far cheaper than a pickup truck.If you want one, get one, but dont pretend its a business decision. 

If they pretend to get rid of the dog but don't I would not renew.- If you can get this issue resolved, I would plan to renew regardless of the state of the house. 

Once you convert this property to a rental and have vacated it you’ll see your rates being much higher by .5-1.00%+ and your max loan amounts or LTV’s offered drop from 90-95% LTV go down to 70-75% so I’d recommend to look at your planning options ahead time and set them prior to conversion or vacating the property.To reduce my risk when I’ve utilized these planning strategies I’ve just done worst case scenarios and pretend to max out your line to see what your payment will be today as interest only, what will be the payment all in be when you’ve vacated, what will the payment be when your interest only line converts to principal and interest payment, and will you cash flow ? 

Call evolve or vacasa and pretend to be interested.

I don't pretend to be "right" about any of this.

Again, I'm not pretending to know right & wrong here, but this type of scenario seems like asking what is the nice way to screw these people I plan on screwing (since you bought it needing to raise rents). 

But don't be fooled their are a ton of brokers, pretending to be lenders.Jack

IF YOU BELIEVE THE REAL ESTATE MARKET IS GOING DOWN (and I'm pretending to know) then the only thing you need to do right now is hoard cash.

It turns out I was dealing with a guy pretending to be someone I know, Roger Gilstrap.It was the oddest thing since I know Roger, so I thought I was communicating with him.