If you are a gluten for punishment, losing money may be right for you.

My thoughts are landlords are often being punished for keeping up with inflation and responding as any other business owner would to supply and demand (as others have stated).In my market there are out of touch expectations for rent raises or lack there of.

My attorney says they are having success with evictions from lease violations outside of non payments and with unlawful detainers.

One, the vinyl lasts longer to the punishment of your tenants.

So know the law, Know your lease and underline it and give a copy back to them, With that said.Yes charge them the $50.00 late rent fee. and If they don't pay you tell them you'll file unlawful detainer eviction action for non-payment of rent , you have no guarantee how they will leave the apartment.

I know its a law but I am not sure how good they are at enforcing it or if they can really punish you is a great way to look at it. 

Tenants can be a handful and being a beginner will punish you here.Doesn't mean you can't or won't make money, but you stressed the word beginner and I just don't think this is a beginner town.

The idea that Landlords are racist, sexist, anti-gay, or whatever is a figment of a liberal's imagination.One thing is for sure: our society is slowly sliding down the path of socialist/communist ideology where hard work and success will be punished or stolen. 

Am I still able to send him an unlawful detainer on the home; he deposited the 1600, but he can go to any wells fargo branch and make a deposit whenever he wants...meaning I didn't "accept' the partial payment, he deposited the 1600 without telling me.Now, it gets weird...When he rented the house (21 months ago), he put himself and his daughter on the lease as people who will be living in the house. 

If I file a unlawful detainer and we go to court and she claims that i turned the water off on her and locked her out of the laundry room so she had to get a motel room will I have to pay her up to $100 a day ?