Exercise patience...

Rent indivual W/D to each unit-Parking Garage parkingCovered parkingprime spot parkingJust plain old charge for parking-Renovations Interior units upgrades Common area renovationExterior upgrades for curb appeal-Vending machinesIn common areas such as exercise room, pool house, laundry or leasing office-Trash pick up serviceIn high end buildings they have a service where you can set trash outside your door and for a fee maintenance will go around each night and collect it so the resident doesn't  have to carry it to the dumpster. 

Definitely a worth-while exercise.  

Now the tenant doesn't want to exercise the ETF by giving me 30 days notice, rely on landlord exercising "reasonable effort" to rerent before the next 1st of the month and basically seamlessly walk away w/out having to pay fee or additional rent before the next tenant moves in.

I have a property in Eastlake area which is a 1bd 1ba 630 sq feet condo.My next door condo (same specifications) sold in July 06 (3 weeks ago) for $270ish.I talked to my agent that helped me buy this home and he broke down the fees to be 6% commissions, and 3% other fees (exercise tax, documentation, etc.)  

@Andrew Spencer No, you can't refi a lease option because you're not on the title until you exercise your option & purchase the property.  

I am a SFR buy-and-hold investor. Even so, the podcast has me intrigued to read about all sorts of deals. So when a friend expressed his displeasure with his apartment landlord, it got me asking questions.Now I'm curi...

Sounds like an expensive and needles exercise

It's a math exercise though.  

as ways to try to get them talking.It could be that he wants to pack it full of people or a grow op, but it could also be that he wants one bedroom to live in, one for a home office, and one for a guest room or exercise room storage or whatnot.