I'd love to help start a movement - by creating positive human connections, building community, and helping local economies prosper with and within rental properties - where we as investors focused on the future possibilities of this glorious industry, instead of passing blame to occupants or hindsight problems from our mistakes.

Talk is usually cheaper so give him a phone call and be very gentle and very nice and nicely explain to him to move out and if he declines your attorney fees will be billed to him for the eviction proceedings.

Resets may be painful but you can deal and you will probably have to deal with one at the max, Just account for some upward movement.

Also threads titled like this / this mentality are giving backing to the "landlords are evil" movement right now.

If so I'd be gentle at first, the last thing you want this winter is vacancy.

But my recent check of rents shows that they are tracking higher where there is movement.

His agency threatened to terminate him if he violated a government employee movement restriction by leaving the local area (50 mile radius) of his primary residence on record which had left as his parent's house which is 90 miles away.

At least if you had a M2M agreement, you could ask for the security deposit money as soon as the 6 months were up.There is a movement in this country to force private landlords into in effect providing government housing with rent restrictions, etc. 

Tenant: "The ”Safer At Home” Emergency Order, as linked here, is 'ordering all residents of the City of Los Angeles to stay inside their residences, and immediately limit all movement outside of their homes beyond what is absolutely necessary to take care of essential needs.’ 

I would argue that the price went down and the value has stayed the same, which is another reason why I prefer to look at inflation as a matter of price movements instead of a matter of value.