Its a smoke and mirrors tactic to give xyz investment the illusion of making more money that it actually does.  

Am afraid your lease was not descriptive enough and may have a tough time in court.Take this as a lessons learned and start working on improving your lease from the things you are seeing with current tenants and then wait it out if you can, which you seem to indicate you can do.Even with a very tight lease, I paid close to $3000 in evictions not to mention the heartache from tenants that I inherited on my first duplex purchase where I lived on one side and rented the other.I will never again inherit tenants.These ones moved in an extra person a year and a half in, despite lease saying not to, smoked marijuana and cigarettes in house despite lease saying not to and worse, I lived on property so they became very sneaky about how they broke their lease and these was just a nightmare.I hate evictions, but I equally hate bad tenants and tenants that I have not personally screened and that is why I refuse to take on tenants at property purchase.I also always, always do unit inspections.I just did one yesterday and glad I did, which I had initially decided I would not do, but nope, get in there and see how your property is being maintained.My fairly new tenant seems to have an issue with basic housekeeping.There was a smell in the unit, which I still cannot figure out what it is, but brought it to their attention and will be following up, he has a car that leaks oil endlessly on my newly resurfaced concrete driveway and garage flow, has a ring in toilet bowl that is also stained and smelling toilet from lack of cleaning.It pains me to see a unit that I took great care of when I lived in it to see what it is quickly turning into but I am nipping that in the butt right now.Dirty tenants can be a liability to any landlord, but overall tenants will try to test you and see just how vigilant you are and how much they can get away with.I also make notes on what I want to update on my next lease when I run into issues.Pets?

I don’t know how much more in your face I have to be to get you to reach out, unless you were actually just making this thread to blow smoke and talk to people.

Ie Pets / Smoking / Parking / Terms / etc ? 

Do you smoke, and if so inside or outside?

Another week goes by and tennant has still not moved in and I find out that he has been scrubbing the inside of entire apartment due to smoke odors...  

A 'used to be' completely debt-free colleague, now turned to the dark side a little bit with RE debt is @Julie Kern.  

The ridiculous thing about this is that to save pennies on the dollar, we lived in a totally dark, ice cold house.

@James Wise awesome that you're showing the dark side of owning property out there.

My lease policy states no smoking within 15 feet of any structure.