There have been other offers on the house in the meantime, but the seller is stubborn and has refused them.

The tenants then still manage to accumulate more of the stuff month after month for the duration of their stubborn clinging grasp upon your property until you are finally able to get them out.

No.. the internet will show your competitors that DO have a website and you have then done a LOT of work ... to hand over that precious lead to your competitors..I know because I am that competitor in my market.I tell people to get a website yet they are too stubborn to listen to me.

Some will say, just out of stubborn principles” “no way, there are plenty agents...”, yeah that’s true but a rookie agent will cost you much more than 1-2 difference.

That rate since 2012 has only improved slightly, from 16.4 percent.The unemployment picture for others in this age group remains stubbornly high.

Still I have a stubborn streak as i suspect you have so I will try again.Lets use an analogy you might understand. 

As long as the owner isn't stubborn and doesn't want to just use his 2 page lease.

If I hadn't stubbornly wanted to do the lone wolf thing and keep doing deals on my own, I would have accelerated my portfolio much faster much earlier. 

@Fernan Nava,Very good advice, “Know your market”.So, I am giving myself between now and spring to really evaluate the rent raises.One thing that is driving me to consider the raises, is that I am contemplating taking on exterior porch maintenance, something tenants were tasked with in existing lease but I have had to remind them repeatedly on, with little luck.I have come to find that it is easier to fight monetary vs. compliance issues in evictions court.I therefore want to put a monetary value to items/policies that don't currently have a monetary value.In existing lease tenants are required to keep their immediate exterior areas clean, but somehow either they are just lazy or just flat out stubborn and while yes I could issue a 3-day notice to quit, I choose not to.Instead, I plan to take on that responsibility and simply charge them for it, so I am not wasting my time reminding them of it during next lease term.Less is more in my opinion and I prefer an approach where I have more chance of success in evictions court.Up the price and take care of the exterior 3 times during the lease term and I don’t have to worry about it while at the same time I get to maintain curb appeal and keep pests away which is my biggest concern.

I have a few stubborn tenants who insist upon paying in cash and I make them take the money to my bank with a pre-filled out deposit slip with my name and the last three digits of the account number and then they fill in the date and the amount of the deposit.