Keeps the behaviors dialed in.

We offer 4 different payment methods to our tenants: Online ACH via our PM software (no charge) Deposit @ our bank ($3 charge) Credit Card ($5 + cc fees) Mail ($10 charge)Notice we charge a fee for the less desirable options to encourage the behavior we want:)

@Jack Krusinski sounds like a mental health issue...maybe it's not intentional behavior...if you evict, you could end up in hot water with a possible fair housing violation or discrimination charge...civil rights, or advocacy organization pushing to take the tenant back...viscous circle if she ends up back in one of your units. 

Such as: health hazard, fire hazard, property damage, property litter, and the likelihood of other addictive behaviors taking hold.There are also many ways to inspect and discover the smoking that is going on inside your unit.

Calling this behavior immoral is really rich!

She only rented to college students that were getting aid and she had about 6 duplexes total so imagine in income she was getting.I'm looking to kinda mimic the same behavior as far as renting the other 2 rooms for $2,000/semester a piece.

Refundable gives the tenant the incentive to keep the place clean and be responsible for the pet's behavior/damage.But yesterday, someone on BP (I apologize for forgetting his name right now), suggested a flat increase in the monthly rent, plus the usual security deposit.

After watching the video, my thoughts were to ask the lower neighbor to move as that type of behavior is not acceptable to us, however, my experience is strictly with single family homes and we never had to deal with such issues.

Its been really a really huge mental shift for me in terms of understanding my personal finances, although in reality its just a slight change in behavior.

Worse in my view is that the current PM contracts actually encourage bad PM behavior by rewarding putting weak renters in your property and when they leave or have to be evicted the PM gets rewarded with yet another months rent by placing another weak renter in your property.