This is a great "secret weapon", go to the city planning office and inquire about it.

In some states, you can get a highly expedited eviction if the tenant does something extreme (like threatening other tenants with a weapon), but I wouldn't be able to help you with the details.

We've used shipping containers for instructional purposes, the military has built entire "staged" towns out of them for weapons training and tactical training.

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Find a weapon no one else is expecting you to use...  ;-)

just a couple of things I would dig out the area under the front porch & make it a walk in fireproof safe & weapon storage.

I tried to get the cleaning contract so that I could get ahead and pay my dues up to date and they refused to let me and now they try to use it as a weapon that we were doing something wrong?

I must especially applaude and thank Mark, who has felt the need to berate, dismiss and lecture me, having complete mastery of the issue, knowing all the particulars, so that he feels just in dispersing his righteous venom.

Let them go in first and leave first so you always have your eyes on them and they are not behind you.You can also carry various weapons but really the tips outlined above should scare the thugs off.

You gotta know where you are at because there is a large amount of property for sale on the cheap, and often it can look pretty on paper, but if you can only collect rent on odd numbered months due to a weapon on the other side of the door on the 1st-5th of the month, it's no longer such a good deal!!!