At the company I sell for, each new employee is welcome with a Boquet of Cookies.

So you'd have to weigh that against the potential rehab that might be needed in 8 years with the family of 7, as opposed to 8 years of tenants that may or may not, do minimal damage.It really is a guessing game at that point, and I completely see your point of view in that it's far less management with regard to turnovers, with a tenant who doesn't move out for many years.You're a very smart cookie. 

It had a box of cookies, chocolates, white chocolate covered pretzels, nuts, and the smallest box was hard candy. 

On one of the biggerpockets podcasts recently, I think Josh mentioned a good book on tenant management is 'If you give a mouse a cookie' which I thought was hilarious but it's also true.

You don't owe them any further explanation, but I would give it to them in hopes they leave you alone when they realize you caught them with their hand in the cookie jar. 

If not now, then at time of renewal next year.And yes, landlording is hard, no easy cookie cutter solution for everything.  

And it sounds like similar to your town, that building's age is the norm and the young professionals aren't racing to live in the cookie cutter homes 20 minutes of town.  

Have you tried clearing the cache, cookies and history in your browser, then access BP?

There is oil, cookies, almost anything can be made with the different forms of pot ( remember the stories of people who made brownies with pot ?).

I read in a parenting book many years ago, that if your child comes home and asks for a cookie before dinner, knowing the rule is no cookies before dinner - but one time out of ten you say "yes," the kid will ask every day.