@Jared BendettaI agree you need to do Tax and Lien search in order to do any meaningful analysis.

Makes no difference to me at the end of the day.Whereas most of the landlords on this forum are doing their level best to maximise every penny from a tenant, I'm not exactly poor, I don't need to extract every penny out of tenants.We did have a couple move out this weekend, they spent two years with us, and not only will they get all their deposit back, we will send a house warming gift also.

If they don't answer, I honestly don't have time to go through them all trying to extract this important information.

They are really working in the noise of the issue not doing anything meaningful other than hurting tenants if anyone.Before all this came up I'm not sure how many landlords actually knew about the exceptions. 

Once the new tenant is in at the higher rate, could you also refinance to extract capital for other investments? 

Even in our 2-4 unit properties, moving to en-suite laundry using energy and water efficient front-load machines has not seen a meaningful increase in our water bill.  

You could have an attorney write a scare letter to try and extract what little money the previous tenant has now to settle it.

I needed to extract a confession, and I'll be frank- waterboarding, as tempting as it sounded in this case, was not an option.I resorted to the use of skill and subterfuge- in essence, I decided to fight fire with fire.

In real estate investing I see that I have to change my traditional ways of thinking and realize cash in hand today is many times more meaningful than future savings.

I primarily use the BRRR method, so the end goal is to have little-to-no cash invested which means that Cash on Cash Return is not a really meaningful metric.