Cities are increasingly passing "Nuisance" laws that hold the landlord responsible for the behavior of the tenants.

I don't know the ideology of the Gates' or the others mentioned but I do know the ideology and behavior pattern of capital socialists.

It is more of an action plan with a focus on changing behaviors and the way a person runs their finances.

Once you get critical mass you get sticky behavior (people keep coming back).John Corey

As with any tenant, the best advice I can give you is to listen to your gut feeling and watch the behavior of the prospective tenant carefully.

which we are assuming is a big no.Is this typical behavior for a place selling real estate for a bank?

If what you do looks more like brokerage than investing, they will demand to see your license and hold you to the standards of behavior of brokers—most notably a fiduciary duty to the client.

They are fairly easy to intimidate into good behavior.

I recommend you become a student of that homepath website and try to document their behavior, like you are Jane Goodall watching some gorillas.In my area, they drop the price about 7.5% every 30 days the house is on the market for the most part, almost like clockwork.

The threat of not being able to use you as a reference is also no longer credible if you're seeing this sort of behavior.