For the tenant to pay the CC fee, 3.25% needs to be added to the requested amount.

How are you going to fund the repairs on the property, or pay the CC payments long term?

Better check State Regs on Tenants Rights To Relocation For No-Fault EvictionsFor California its CC 37.9C here"(e) Relocation expenses shall be: (1) Each Eligible Tenant receiving a Covered No-Fault Eviction Notice shall receive $4,500, $2,250 of which shall be paid at the time of the service of the notice to quit, and $2,250 of which shall be paid when the unit is vacated.

We didn't force or ask anyone to take our CC payment but if they accepted it without any extra charge we used it.

The CC's are what is killing me with high interest rates.

That price point you mention is a little low for any B class properties but C, C- could be had.

If you're in a C/C+ area returns of 25%+ COC can be acheived using the same expense ratios I plugged in for your property if you pick the market/asset well.

Additionally if you had a way to have your operating cost fronted and not require cash up front, like taking their CC number, doing a hold or something, and then just use it up to $1500 now both of us don't have to deal with the upfront burden. 

Note, there is nothing else in the lease about CC payments or 2.5% surcharge. 

@Tony LihalakhaAt Lion Realty we specialize in house hacking and bedroom rental management, mainly near UCCS and CC, with over 100 bedrooms under management.