I proposed buying the tenant out to my family members and they decided instead to dig in there heels and wait him out.

It was exasperating but caused me to cook my heels.

Like Spike Lee said, 'Do the Right Thing"!

We're hot on your heels ;-P lol. 

I have no basis for this but I would venture to guess that you're backtracking to cover your heels.

We often talk about "warzone" properties on here and some parts of the south side of Chicago truly are warzones, unfortunately Chicago has had a huge spike in violence over the last few years.

If interest rates spike up, I have to think the returns on those projects could have some refinance risk.

When the landlord I paying for the water nobody cares about usage My brother had a $3,000 spike on the water bill for one of his properties last year and the only thing the plumber could figure out is that someone had to have left their sink run for days. 

My girlfriend is an investor and its really spiked my interest in an industry I was already very curious about.

Most LLs do not want to go through the trouble of legal evictions, so for something to get that far means the tenant dug his/her heels in and refused to come to some solution outside of court.