No vacation plans/photos, new car, expensive jewelry discussions ever again. 

As soon as stainless steel came into fashion I thought they were already outdated things that are going to be dated any day now. 

Cozy, Quicken, rentpost, appfolio etc.Buildium allows me to enforce rules without being the bad guy and lets me collect payments in the form of electronic check, debit card, credit card or good old fashion cash.

In this letter all negative consequences for the non paying tenant are explained in an easy to understand fashion.

Send him a letter on the disposition of the security deposit in a timely fashion according to MA Landlord-tenant law and see what happens.  

I would ask him first in a friendly fashion to remove the gate as there is no reasonable reason for a gate into your yard.

A good apartment maintenance tech can do almost anything in a rapid fashion to get an apartment ready to rent. 

And as such, gets to expect to have the home to live in, without being invaded.And, imagine what it would be like to have a horde of complete strangers (and in SF right now, any open house will be a mass infusion of strangers) walking through your home, perhaps looking in your closets, your jewelry box, you medicine cabinets, checking out your stereo, your televisions, your computers....As an owner, do you really want that liability? 

Built strong and tough, but ugly and waiting for poop brown to come back in fashion.   

If I didn't mention it before - town officials LOVE having GOOD Landlords and investors coming into their market to buy and fix up buildings and will usually bend over backwards to help you have a great property.B3: Hey Brandon, let's see some video posts of those Brandon illegal dance moves (aka BID moves) in true Marvel Comics fashion "Guardians of the Galaxy" dance-off style when they blow up the bag guy at the end of the flick.