Non-payment is usually acceptable, but what about the irritating, constant minor violations, or unproven issues you don’t want to go to court over?  

Still feel blessed, no threat of losing properties like others in our state, but irritated that the delinquencies are not due to COVID, just poor eviction moratorium policy.

Doing anything else is just going to cost you time, money & irritation.

It will irritate you when your paying several hundred each month in utilities.

Make sure you're only irritating the landlord, not the local authorities, if you feel you must go that route.I'd try explaining to the property manager about your situation and seeing if you can early terminate or sublet it to a long term tenant as the first option, though.

I had one nice single family tenant that was smoking on the patio and irritated the neighbor, I found out after they moved out so it was a mute issue at that point.

I also got a whiff of some attitude in those texts so that is irritating me a bit.

One other note, in my opinion the best indication of returns for this kind of asset is IRR.  It

I've got over 70 bulbs in my house and I think I've replaced just 2 in the last 2 years.My other irritant is plumbing leaks that no one told you about and they "never noticed".

Sellers like to keep it below the line to boost NOI, but I factor it in when estimating my IRR. It