No reason for any investor to feel guilty for wanting to operate the most successful business possible.   

If you were to advise anyone in the state of Virginia with the information you have provided in this thread, and they were to rely on it, you could be guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor.

If you wouldn't rent to anyone with recent criminal charges on their record; why is it OK to rent to them when, by your account, they are guilty of potentially the exact same actions.

The fact is, the sum of missing rent is pretty small and would be much easier for the guilty part to pay than having a complaint to the bar or their broker ore real estate licensing board. 

We have tospend time sending the file to and paying the attorney's, manage the tenant and the property in the meantime to protect the asset while they are still in the housedeal with whatever  measures they take to prevent the eviction, (legal, pleadings from family or church members)liase with the sherriff's officechange the locks and deal with anything left behindclean the property and pay for trash removalspend $$$'s to upgradere-certify for leaddo multiple showings and vettings to refill the vacancy and maybe upgrade equipment in the house if necessary to secure the right tenantdeal with the uncertainty of not knowing when the vacancy will be filled or how the new tenant will performdeal with the utility companies and the city for any licensing issuestransition the new tenant until they are settled and familiar with how everything works.By contrast managing a habitually late tenant is childs play.  

I just find myself feeling kind of guilty collecting application fee and then having to tell people they were not selected, then they are out the $30.

He advised me that failing to tell the police what I knew could be considered misprision of a felony (see google) which means in essence you become guilty through knowing about the commission of a crime and not saying anything about it.So I went to the police, and eventually they had enough evidence to arrest my tenant.

Truth be told I too am guilty of this at times.

My past experience is fuel to be a lot like the DA: guilt is what you can prove.  

It's a bit flimsier, but if there's a section in your contract that says they will notify you of any defects on the property, including dangerous conditions, and they didn't, then maybe you could at least claim that they were partly negligible.While it's true that dog bites are usually presumed to be guilty, and many lawyers actually specialize in just dog bites because of that, there is also something called the "one bite rule."