This is nothing to write home about, but if you have to do the repairs anyway... you might as well get a little rent boost for them.If you or a family member wants to move in, you can usually kick one of the tenants out to owner occupy - but not if they have been there over 10 years and are disabled or senior--- if they have all been there for 35 years, they might all be senior citizens or disabled and you can't get them out this way.

I REALLY don't like the idea of tenants using the fireplace.I'd like to disable the fireplace, but not sure how to do it without ruining the aesthetics.

No evictions, No felonies, No pets, He makes 4.5x rent.Career Disabled Veteran has a nasty divorce which leads to Chapter 13.Tenant re-marries 5 years later and spouse has bad credit and is not working.Prospective tenant gets veteran retirement and disability of which 1/2 is garnished for ex-spouse.Prospective tenant has now taken a job teaching ROTC at the local high school.

Both are disabled with issues that affect their temper and processing of things.

It appears that I will need to have a single tenant for the entire building,  or at the very least one tenant to lease the 1st and second floors otherwise the compliance issues would be too onerous to be practical... i.e. if separate tenants for each floor, a 3rd floor office tenant would need an elevator installed at a min cost of $80k if it was even possible.A challenge being that he is disabled.

This is compliant with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's findings that federal and state non-discrimination laws does not require the Landlord to accommodate requests to use, possess or cultivate medical marijuana from current or prospective tenants with disabilities.

Some loans are given to people with disability as the loan will come in full.

Payoffs for vacating for such tenants might be prohibited, as is sometimes the case with seniors, those on disability or Sec8.

As I've become disabled, I am very interested in real estate investing.

Now, I am disabled with a rare incurable chronic leukemia.