Those in favor, want to reduce avoidable human suffering inflicted by slumlords.

Government will then be forced (ironically self inflicted) to raise taxes or create new fees somewhere to fund this causing prices to go even higher and so on and so forth.Free market.

Usually, in order to successfully evict, you will have to be code compliant or prove completely (without a doubt) that any code violation was caused / inflicted by the tenant.

The bottom line is that this wound is almost entirely self-inflicted!

Hopethe PM gets severly disciplined, then he won'tlikely be able to inflict harm on other's like he'sdone to us.Whenever there was a problem (washer went out, webought a new one; electrical issue, we paid anelectrician even though it was the power provider'sissue; clogged drain- paid for a plumber eventhough it was baby wipes from their grandchild).

This is a self-inflicted wound and you have good reason to be worried.

My goal is not to inflict late fees on tenants but rather to get them to pay at the first part of the month.

It sounds to me like this was a self-inflicted wound.

My long-term plan is to have the option to do the real estate thing full time but unfortunately I'm inflicted with conservativeness which makes me really slow to pull the trigger.

Banks are rent collectors of a different kind that base their underwriting decisions on pain infliction.