She rolled up in a new Lexus SUV, designer hand bag, dressed to the 9 and complained about everything in the house.  

hi. i am a landlord but i do not manage a 60 unit building. i agree with everyone, get a property management company to run things for you. i do a lot of work for a property management company here in the buffalo, ny area as a handyman. quite often, we handymen know of better and faster ways to get the parts you need than doing it on your own. that being said, a/c units have to have a licensed professional work on them anyway, but knowing how to get the parts faster is always a good thing. as far as the tenant threatening the police, lol, they won't even get involved. they have better things to do than worry about some joker sweating a little bit. you dropped off a fan, the tenant refuses to open the windows, which is on him, so he, himself is causing himself and his family more harm than you are. if he is worried about the high crime issue being on the second floor, lol, criminals work as little as they can. they sure as hell are not gonna scale the side of a building like spiderman just to rob this guys place of residence; unless he has a bag of money or gold stashed in the place, in which case he probably wouldn't have been late with the rent 6 times. my advice, continue down the path you are on. hire a property management company, boot this dumbass out the door when his lease expires and let him become someone elses problem. good luck

One roll of paper towels on the kitchen counter with one garbage bag.  12 pack of bottled water in the fridge.I think of it as providing the kind of little life necessities that most people don't think of until they need it NOW! 

Seven month later they moved out over one weekend leaving me with 40+ bags of garbage, utilities off and spoiling food in the frig and a kitty litter box full of....well, you know (and no pets were allowed in the place).Since then I've had at least three other applicants put down friends names as landlords. 

There is that tone of voice, and the application is slowly put back in my wife's bag.

And is common after we file eviction they just pack their bags and leave.

Class C type stuff maybe.The complexes in the part of town dedicated to multifamily can be a mixed bag.

I noticed that phonebooks were delivered about 2-3 weeks ago, so any still outside (in bright yellow bags) is a pretty good sign that people aren't around.

@Megan GreathouseIt's a mix bag.

Hey Ian,you survived some shots across bow today after a rough start, we are all just starting to warm up to you and looking in our bag of questions we would like answered by someone running a systematic marketing machine to investing in RE==don't leave it only gets better from here.I also do not understand what you mean when you speak of canvassing, could you explain that further?