My word means a lot to me, would hate to ever terminate a contract over not having the funds lined up, seems dishonest.

I am not saying that all of these people are being dishonest but many have been just conditioned to believe whatever they do is the best or needed.

@Bob Okenwa We thought about cash for keys early in the process, but knowing how dishonest and unethical this tenant has proven to be just decided to go with the eviction, thinking that he likely wouldn’t follow through anyway.

I'm not planning on retroactively and dishonestly going to bill a tenant as my wife but rather want to approach the next problem like this correctly. 

No, we were not exclusively using that agent, we saw a house, scheduled a tour, & she was extremely dishonest about the state of the house. 

So despite the fact this seems dishonest at the surface, I don't believe it's breaking any rules.

Had two contractors so far, one was dishonest and kept asking for money , the other has not been able to get it work done in timely manner and I just want to get it done and sell it or STR it! 

Contractors unfortunately can sometimes have a bad name to them...namely "Dishonest" as some just don't complete the work and can run off with your money.

And I would look at a free boat “worth” 1500 like it someone was handing me a wet angry cat. On

Landlords not accepting the 50% rule are mostly being dishonest with themselves.