That way, you can just give 30 days notice to end a tenancy, as well as 30 days notice to change any rules, etc.The things that usually wreck roommate situations is unwanted guests, not cleaning up after themselves, messing with thermostats, stealing food.Some of those things can be pretty easily dealt with - like including a weekly cleaning service in the rent, putting little apartment fridges in the rooms.But, inevitably, there will be a roommate who you will want to get rid of, so having month to month agreements is the easiest way to get rid of them.  

I have a few more that have made small payments or had small wage garnishments of $20 - $50.An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.The best thing you can do to protect yourself is to have solid policies in place and enforce them.

But, it drove her nuts.So, one night she's pounding on my door hysterical. 

Now the buyer is trying to re-trade the seller on price to make the cash flow numbers work and the seller says pound sand that's not my problem and the deal falls out.Now the buyer has thousands to tens of thousands in sunk costs all because they did not verify ahead of time.

Most people who rent a unit with all hardwood floors bring their own area rugs anyway, which should deaden most of the most obnoxious pounding. 

They can weigh 50 pounds and sound like an elephant to me.Funny story - the building I last managed had 10 foot ceilings and was an old very solidly built building with carpets. 

I Sh*t 25 pounds!!!

Originally posted by @Immanuel Sibero:Once I figure out how to type one-handed, I can start posting without asking the wife to hold my beer...Oh, I think I know a number of people here who are quite adept at pounding their keyboards with one hand while pounding something else with the other, but let's not name names... 

Lol... oh all the doom and gloom people pounding on retail.

Then they cook meth in the house or some other unwanted thing.