@Jenifer Levini - I'm amazed you're an attorney and I don't appreciate your veiled threat about other realtors reporting me.

I've seen regional homebuilders knock assignment fees down from $100k+ to less than $20k under threat of litigation and/or reporting unlicensed brokerage activities.

Another Realtor® association opened its MLS to non-members in response to a threat to sue.8.

Do I do it anyway in hope what they said was an empty threat while having a backup lender available for the refi just in case?

I've fought many threats to this site over the years and often times make very difficult business decisions in order to keep the site running.

We're talking a 1.1 to 1 Pit-Bull to lease rate, strong evidence of drug dealings, history of scuffles between residents, threats to the managers, the whole thing. 

If such is prohibited in your lease, then they are in violation of that lease and subject to all that it entails.My lease lists physical abuse, verbal abuse, public intoxication, public disturbance, threats, illegal drug use, etc. as causes for eviction.

If you have been prudent in screening and had no evictions as part of your acceptance criteria, then the threat of pursuing eviction can be enough to get your tenant to actually pay the last month of rent when due so that the security deposit is retained to cover damages.I also follow the practice of an initial lease of other than 12 months in order to have leases end in months where it is preferable to find tenants.

You have the right and arguably the responsibility to remove this animal and/or the resident from your property.According to HUD: "The FHA does not require a dwelling to be made available to an individual whose tenancywould constitute a direct threat to the health or safety of other individuals or whose tenancywould result in substantial physical damage to the property of others.A housing providermay, therefore, refuse a reasonable accommodation for an assistance animal if the specificanimal poses a direct threat that cannot be eliminated or reduced to an acceptable levelthrough actions the individual takes to maintain or control the animal"You can read the full HUD guidelines here: https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfil...The ESA abuse by tenants is ridiculous. 

For lava zones 1 and 2, the property sold there tends to be quite cheap because of the threat of lava - and extra insurance is quite expensive.