You might be fully capable of getting your best return done on your own, why would you hope that's the case when you can hire a professional?  

Would make both of your lives easier.If you can get this arranged, get it in writing and let the current tenant know you'll be showing the property a month prior to them leaving.If they put up a fight, might just have to take a hit in order to find a more suitable renter.

Or do you fight with them and take the risk something bad happens to your place.Rant over...kind of

You can't fight and win.  

As for your analogy with the traffic ticket - I have heard of people successfully fighting these in court with the defense of, "That was not me driving."

From my past experience as a beneficiary it's a slow process and if the heir's are fighting (10 of us) probate can take a long time.

:-(In the lease, both lessor and lessee agree that if we have legal fight, the attorney fee that the non-prevailing party have to pay is no more than $500.

It does go the other way on occasion and you don't want to have to fight with title for the difference after you've given up all leverage.We too are occasionally faced with some very aggressive and uninformed title agents who insist we must submit all of our documents in advance of payoff.

As a 21-year-old college student currently in his senior year at the Claremont Colleges in California, I'm not financially capable of making such a huge financial commitment to a practice about which I just started learning.So, I came to BiggerPockets with the intention of learning as much as I can from a community of well-established investors!

Ben Barredo here from Knoxville, TN, a fired-up real estate newbie that is grinding and fighting to make things happen.