What are they going to do if the tenant never pays, ask you for a refund after they lied?

As you get to several hundred, you will employ very cost efficient technology solutions that cost only a few dollars per door.

Same goes for agents... except agents have to lie, cheat and deceive within a set of state mandated rules.

I don't recommend making up a lie, however, I do recommend (and did this when I started out) controlling the conversation to avoid such specific questions.

It seems that the consensus is that he is lying in order to gain personally or to help BO.

Those type of deals are not just lying around for anyone to pick up.

Hey Brian -First, a lot of my ideas around bonuses and penalties comes from my wife, who ran internal marketing for one of the big-name technology companies for a long time; a large part of her organization's job was doing employee motivation and retention stuff, which is pretty tough job in that industry.

A tenant that wants to move fast is a red flag and I never believe them.I never let them move on the weekend when I can't verify anything.I have credit checks,criminal,check for judgements,call back at least 2 generations of landlords back,check sex offender registry (not a protected class),job verification,pay stubs,banks statements etc.If they are truly motivated and tired of this landlord then they will work hard to give you those items you request.If they give partial or nothing they are lying about something or holding something back.They might have not paid the landlord rent for awhile and have to leave and have enough money to pay you first month and move in but after that nothing else.I would also visit where they live now.If they are pointing out cosmetic and ticky tack items and the place looks good then they are just a high maintenance tenant.I have a tenant that gave me a 2 page list of stuff to fix.I told them they accepted the condition when they moved in which was functioning and clean.I did fix a roof pan that needed replacing.They haven't bothered us since.If you do not stand firm with tenants they will take and take.One day your their best friend ever when they need something fixed and then when they pay the rent you are the evil landlord who never fixes anything.

While you might win in small claims court, if she decides to lie and stick to her story (and if you don't have anything in writing), you'd probably lose.

You have already seen how they lie and manipulate the "vote", why in the world would we allow this banana republic type governemt to have ANY power over our most valuable possesion....our home?