Someone always spotted the weaknesses in an argument and we avoided making too many mistakes.Id suggest you partner up with a like minded person for the fist few notes and work together with them until you feel confident enough to strike out alone.

If you did a strike through and changed the price, added additional wording for repairs, etc...anything like that makes it a NEW contract and they have the right to cancel.

They'll probably tell you that they lose all their money on 9 out of 10 but they just hope to hit that one that strikes it big. 

I need to stop by the apartment sometime today to pick up rent, I plan on using that as an excuse to strike up conversation with the accused tenant and request permission to enter the apartment at that time. 

Rent strike should follow the local landlord/tenant laws but should include notification and time to resolve, and if they signed a lead based paint acknowledgement, its on them because they knew about it.I would object to them raising the issue at all in eviction court.  

No point in starting with bad debt as a strike against you.

Lets face it, you may need to actually "work" as an agent so that you can learn the trade before 'striking out on your own' so to speak. 

What’s striking to me about the STR model is that in many cases any excess profit goes away if a manager is hired.Having run all three models I can tell you my personal preferences.  

I've had people contact me before the court date to arrange payment or strike a deal as they know they aren't going to win and it will be much worse after a judgment. 

None of which would strike me as prime facie evidence unless the court had put the defendant in a position to defend a negative, something unfamiliar to Americans, though perhaps should mull over the possibility of something to get used to.