Purchase price: $17,900 This was a deal I coined myself a "grab bag" lol.

So calling the tenant various degrees of dirt-bag for advocating and negotiating, successfully I might add, for his best interest with a WILLING party in leasing a property, that's just a non-starter right there buddy.

Pretty typical reaction, but that doesn't mean you need to sit back and be their punching bag either.

However while you were busy generalizing us as dirt bags you didn't bother to ask about my military background, or my time as a defense contractor, or that I am taking a giant pay cut to have more flexibility to spend time with family.

I am all good with my tenants.I do think that we need to get good local and national representation, I have not been completely satisfied with many of the landlord groups who I have seen in articles.Regardless, you will always have nut-bags who think the system is immoral or that it is rigged.

@Hamp Lee III has this one in the bag, definitely go the correct route and hire appropriately. 

The tenant had also not signed up for trash service and piled up bags of it against the side of the house (inside and out) and there was a major roach infestation when we got the house back.

I immediately call my girlfriend and tell her to pack a bag for me and her, I pick her up and stayed in a hotel for a few days.I had to pay someone to post the 3-day notice because I did not feel comfortable going on to the property.He ended up moving out after he got the notice to appear from the court. 

You can wrap the head in plastic (grocery bags) to keep the paint roller from drying out if you have to pause for the evening so you don't have to clean it every day.Happy painting!

You have to have the cash in your boot, your briefcase, your LV travel bag.