Section 8 will put you through a lot of hoops and pain to initially rent the property and can be quite onerous during the yearly reinspections (failures for basic, non life-threatening issues and tenant-caused issues are extremely common).Good luck!

You know real estate is getting competitive when one investor "threatens" to do a drive by to another investor.

I have a tenant who is getting very threatening with me lately.  

If so, talk to his Broker about your concerns and threaten to go to your state's Real Estate commission if they don't let you out of the agreement.If not, then 'woman up' and let him know that his services are no longer needed.

Yeah that's a first instinct...seems threatening.

However, I would not threaten eviction, but rather I would let the tenant and the case manager know what needs to be done to allow the tenant to continue to live in the unit she now occupies.

Now they are threatening to take me to court and I don't want to drive down to FL just to that.There has to be some way to prove that it wasn't me that got the ticket.

It may take a little to get a renter, but sounds like you would have no issues at that point.If he threatens you for his "commission", kindly tell him the commission is based on SALE price, and if you effectively sell the house for $500... his commission would be 3-6% of that.

download your state landlord tenant laws so you know how to properly respond.Depending on what the tenant contested,, and how well you documented the original costs / damages.. your response could be just to resend the same statement out, with note that you reviewed their response but have fully documented the same, If they threaten to take you to small claims court then they can do that.. and you'll have the documentation to back that up.if there was a error or adjustment in their favor that came to light.. then send them the adjustment. 

Some other mid-western markets do not have promising population and job growth, which may threaten rent growth in the future.