Self educated legal expert that specializes in making other people's lives miserable.

I've just always been fascinated with real estate & have decided to replace the job that makes me miserable with something that I know that I'll enjoy! 

You will never force these people to be civil so unless you want the next 10.5 months to be miserable for you and the upstairs tenant get them to move on, now.If it continues, your upstairs tenant may have a case to break her lease and possibly even sue you for mental anguish.Again, these people will not change so you need to extract yourself from their lives.

then you'd be miserable trying to do it.

Some bureaucrat will get a hair up their hole and make your life miserable and there will be no way to avoid it except to spend more money on lawyers.

One phone call from an annoyed neighbor could make your life miserable.

I guess they were thinking to themselves 'how can we make sequestration as painful and miserable as possible for the landlord?

I have no doubt as this grows you will have platforms that fail and fail miserably because they do not have the underwriting experience.

I've got some money stashed away, but am really a miser at heart and would rather not part with too much.

:DYikes...I think it would be a miserable existence to never work again.