Be very carful moving forward with this tenant, you may simply be enabling him and you may end up on the short end if his finances are stretched due to the separation.

You already established a terrible precedent by being overly compliant to her misbehavior and have now enabled her for further complaints.

We see ACH enabled tenants stick around almost 50% longer than non ACH.  

As typical in society today, instead of addressing the source of the problem, we enable deadbeats and penalize the successful. 

Enabling people with spending problems is doing them a disservice.

However, it doesn’t have to happen to you, nor should it.You will hear that deadbeat tenants know all the rules, which enable them to stay in your property month after month without paying any rent.

One thing I learned in this life,  is that you don't enable people. 

We both have W-2 jobs and self-employment income from our respective professions (sign language interpreter and musician/pianist/entertainer.)

She said it will help her budget her money and enable payments to be timely.

Also note that this was a unanimous decision of a very "blue" state Supreme Court.http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/crime/201...See Also, San Francisco Housing Authority:http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Housing-Auth...See Also this review article:http://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent......paying particular attention, perhaps, to this: "Nonetheless, banning legal firearm possession in public housing enables government interference with otherwise legal gun ownership, strips residents of an important means of self-defense, and very likely