I'd rather risk essientially lending good people $300 (if I can afford it) in their time of need and feel good about myself than risk losing them, by forcing them into a move that will cost more than rent and force a lady and husband with a broken arm to move a bunch of boxes and furniture. 

I told them that the place was a mess, and that I had to spend time cleaning and hauling abandoned furniture out to the dumpster.

I try to donate clothes coats and shoes, sell decent furniture items so the buyer has to carry them away then bag up the rest and send it all to the dump.

She gets all the used furniture at yard sales.

We had to remove baseboards, pull up carpet, replace boxsprings, disassemble furniture and put it out in the shed (at -25C for a week).By the time we were done three treatments of the entire lower unit in the building and inspections of the upper unit to ensure they had not spread that far and had replaced mattresses and boxsprings -  we had spoiled the better part of $5K.Since it was a rooming house, we had to act quickly and assume the costs - the tenant skipped anyway (and has no money).  

If that does not work to get you more free time in your smokey apartment, full of cockroaches that you brought with all your used furniture and dogs that were not allowed on the Lease, then, try to file for Bankruptcy before the Eviction Order is Executed and the Judge will give you another 90 days of free loader living in that smokey apartment.

Then, you have to deal with removing furniture and storing it.

Sometimes you give a little, yes, for example I had one tenant recently ask if we could add 2 plugs in the garage at his expense because he is getting into building small furniture.

My true passion is home staging, design, repurposing/rehabbing furniture, and now real estate investment.

Should we stage the rooms that currently don't have furniture?