They are treating being a landlord like a hobby and have poor business scenes in thinking their customers appreciate the gestures or would act negatively if they did no.

That being said nothing deviates from the lease as I feel I am more than generous with my grace period.

If the statute is 30 days notice and you give 60 you are being generous. 

We could use the equity line, slow and generously, from it to purchase other properties to flip and rent more properties, and the monthly rent generated from the river home to pay back the equity line and to save up for cap ex, taxes, insurance, maintenance, etc.Our question is, how much are people willing to pay for long term rent?

He decided he was fine and comfortable where he was at, but I presume he appreciated the gesture of us allowing it.He just renewed his lease for another year. 

 It was a nice gesture, but a costly one. 

This may work for a single family house but in an apartment complex it creates a perverse incentive not to pay rent especially in a low income blue collar small community rental properties.I have a 21 unit apartment complex where the previous owners offered generously cash-for-keys.

And I'd give them a generous percentage - even 15 or 20 percent. 

He said if you want to be generous you can probably add another 10% which would cover the cash tips.

As a tenant now, and a previous resident manager, these types of gestures are really a waste of money, and may even be insulting.It kind of reeks of a lord of the land having a party for his serfs.Think about it.