You don't have harsh winters in your area, but you do have very tenant friendly laws.

This is why with apartments I do not get landlord agreements with the power companies.The tenants will call the power company and lie and say they are moving to another address.The power company then transfers to you the landlord and a few months later you get a huge bill.I would just pay the 30.00 turn on fee if I needed to work in the unit to get ready for re-rental.Much better that way and the tenant can't run their scam that way.I did catch another tenant of mine (section 8)plugging into a vacant unit next door on the outside plug.I had power turned on as I was working on that unit.I unplugged the first time and they kept doing it so I took a picture with time and date and called the cops.Made an incident report but not a formal charge.Police politely told the tenant you can't do that ( I wasn't there when he explained to them) and that if it happened again they would have some new arm bracelets to wear.They didn't do it after that.The cop said I could have filed charges instead of incidence report but that he thought a warning was best versus arresting them and then they get mad and do damage to the unit.He said if it happened again maybe go the other route.I kept the documentation and pictures to show the character of this tenant in case they tried to make any claims or lawsuits down the road etc.I have had my fill of low income tenants.Too much drama there.It's not usually worth the extra few percent annually when you account for everything.

I don't mean to be harsh, but you will not make it in this business with the attitude of I can't.My business partner has TRIPLETS, and she started her business when they were all 2 years old.

Some of the responses are harsh, but they are eye opening.

Great people and no issue with the property, but lots of relationship drama, short term leases, early termination, back and forth etc.

We have a reputation of closing quickly and most importantly ZERO drama. 

I always came back with the retort that by watching these shows you could get some really good tips that keep you sharp, as long as you can weed through the fabricated tv drama!

a friend's household is facing similar drama and ur post came up in a BP search.while attending college first thing i noticed with housing was that- Males were never allowed into Sororities, not even as visitors to the Sorority house, even just for study groups etc-Females were increasingly suing their way into being accepted into all-male Fraternities as residents sharing shower/bathroom etc with all those malesto the point now that Fraternities are functionally 'co-ed' even if they're otherwise all-male, yet Sororities remain uniformly no-males allowed not even to visit.

Do not get caught up in hundred dollar drama scenes over deposit refunds.

Let's see: one or more could move out and the others won't pay or can't afford the rent; they could not all get along (drama for you); they could say "I paid my share, X did not, why should I be evicted?"