But, they will know that bullying tactics won't work.I used to tell tenants who would try to pull what yours is pulling by telling them, "You know, if you leave tomorrow, I can put a tenant into your apartment immediately who will pay a much higher rent.

You seem to have fallen for the continuous scare tactics of those who demonize drug users and let your imagine get away from you.

I will follow up if anything unfolds or if it's just a scare tactic.

A SFH I own was being re-prepped to re-rent and was being advertised by the PM company.Who, as is ever increasingly more evident, apparently do whatever they want, often ignoring what I tell them to do, and then if it...

I had thought of the same tactics as I found a property close to our Texas A&M University campus, which I graduated from here in Galveston. 

They were so impressively huge that neither me or my tenants wanted to remove them even though they overpowered the house and allowed weeds to flourish underneath.

One other tactic might be to offer the guy help in moving somewhere else, especially if things start going south

They'll probably initially push back saying that rate is for new customers only or some other BS, but some variation of the line "I'm either going to have a lower rate or your going to disconnect my service before I hang up this phone" is a pretty effective tactic.

It's a sneaky tactic used by so many these days.  

I'm thinking of using that tactic against the non-responsive owners of the run-down MFR's/SFR rentals in my area, even if it feels kinda like I'm "playing dirty."