I won't smoke 10 pounds of ribs/brisket/chicken for them once a week on rent day. 

Are you or your agent open to pounding the pavement?

Nobody under 400 pounds will clog it unless they are competitive eaters.

I wouldn't pay him out of principle and I would tell him to pound sand. 

Future security with passive income, I don't want to pound the cement on hospital floors my whole life.

Family members have not seen him in years so even if he tells me to pound sand I can tell his family he is alive at least and he will know he is going to lose his house to tax auction and he can rectify his problem himself.

Right now, I don't know whether to ask for $1000, $1025, or $1050, but it must be the same for both units, even if one of them has 5 people and a 50 pound dog.  

thank U for claifying  having been in the Timber business for many years last thing you want is someone trying this on their own.not only the tree falling but mangling them selves with the chain saw. their is a very robust art to downing treesin our work a day world we were working with softwood  Doug Fir Cedar Pine .. some redwood so those babies were 100 to 140 foot tall.and a good feller could drive a nail they were so acurate at dropping them.. but most anyone who has worked in that line of work is missing digets or got maimed somehow.. my partner had a log roll on him and those things weight thousands of pounds crushed his foot. 

Tell them to pound sand and that you won't be allowing them to exercise their option.   

The pork meat in Florida cost about .80 cents per pound but here in Austin, Texas they sell it for 2.00 dollars.