I know the holidays can be a tough time of year for folks, especially perhaps RE agents given the year we've had with lower transaction volume.I'm going to assume there's also a good chance you're going through some personal stuff that would explain the behavior.

Originally posted by @Jay Hinrichs:in my experience  no human being on the planet will change this tenant class or  behavior or life situation.that all said I think the investor needs to income average.. its not if your going to have an issue that is guaranteed.you need enough doors so that you can implement @James Wise  strategies.. 

Keep discussions on the market and the unit, or behaviors (does one pay sooner or more consistently, stayed longer), not on the specific circumstances of the tenants.Whenever we have an opening we bump rent to market, so newer tenants are often paying more than older tenants.  

Just google the Cleveland land bank you will find tons of suspicious behavior.   

If we ever have a "drought" (not much of a drought, in Indiana), people just hook up their hose and old-fashioned sprinkler, or even just use the hose with a nozzle.This is standard midwest behavior.

I'm not rewarding bad behavior.

Of course when you do this you increase the paper trail showing fraud.Sorry to be so blunt, but this kind of crappy unethical behavior is what starts to kill a good market - it's just greed.So run don't walk from this guy.  

We're at the point where after ten years of renting out grade C apartments in a low rent town,  we know more about eviction law in our state than most lawyers do.The corollary is to screen well, but if you're dealing with low end rentals, anyone willing to live there will have bad credit, so what you're really screening for is past evictions, lawsuits, nuisance suits by the tenant, court judgements, and criminal behavior. 

Yet, credit score is untouched despite their quirky behaviors. 

When targeting use the demographics and behaviors of your target audience (i.e. likely to move, divorced, homeowner, etc...).