You could play right into their hands, as they may call it a retaliatory eviction because they exercised their rights. 

Other than outliers like Penfed that use NextGen or lenders that use auto-enhanced or bank card-enhanced the other variants are academia and trivial pursuit questions.That answer is wrong, by the way, but I'll leave finding the CORRECT answer as an exercise for you. 

This has been a thought exercise for me, for sure. 

@Jared BendettaThis is a good exercise in fact finding.  

Exercise a contractual or statutory lien; E.

Landlords have the right to exercise their rights, too.  

If you want an interesting exercise about people's cars.

I did speak with my local attorney who stated that typically in his experience in this area, Northern Maine, that trying to pursue unpaid rent like this is an "exercise in futility".  

I would require a one-year lease renewal but would offer a buy-out clause of 2 months' rent with 30 days' notice starting at payment of buy-out clause fee and written notice that can only be exercised if rents are current.  

Landlords should know better than to exercise that luxury.