The odor permeates into all of the rooms in my apt making relaxing and sleeping somewhat difficult.

And sit back and relax.

If you have the opportunity to give back to a good tenant, you can maybe afford to relax the rules a bit.

All suggestions were very good, i would NEVER tell a tenant I'm going on vacation if I'm in your scenario living in a triplex with tenants paying your loan, more often then not, they will act up and get to relaxed and not pay rent or worse yet, damage the place.  

Granted I only moved the pea from under angry, demanding shell #1 over to relaxed don't bother me anymore with your rules shell #2, but it's the freedom I'm after.  

I'm also willing to relax my "no house hacking" rule after really considering it.

In that sense, I was way too relaxed with them and should have been more forceful about my expectations.

Very relaxed and just networking and chatting.

I'm really hoping to get some time to relax, reset, and really plan the next steps wisely. 

Nature is beautiful, comforting, relaxing, and soothing to my soul.