Find ways to show the community that you truly care about delivering great value first and foremost before your own paycheck.Most people see right through gimmicks and high-pressure sales tactics.

My concern is that it feels unreasonable, almost like a "bait and switch", But I don't want to sustain a rental loss either.Since I can easily find new tenants, and will have little vacant time, is raising it and letting them move if necessary a better tactic than doing a partial increase as consideration fir them as good tenants?

so that's something to look into further:http://www.masslegalhelp.org/housing/legal-tactics...

The idea behind marketing is for the individual to not feel like you're using gorilla style tactics.

There are predatory sales tactics, predatory insurance practices, construction, real estate, student recruiting, finance, professional sports, all kinds of industries can have predatory practices, even in legal professions.You may not find a statute heading of "Predatory Dealing" you can find plenty of statutes that deal with predatory dealing type matters. :)   

The VERY BEST lobbying tactic is to hand write a short note and mail to your rep.

Keep an open mind folks.While I thoroughly enjoyed and benefitted from the FB 3-day, and truth be told might have laid down the $35k right there and then if I had it in DISPOSABLE CASH to spend, I did not like the high-pressure sales tactics.

I called a couple just to see what their tactics were.

Are they any specific way or negotiating tactic when dealing with this issue.

Patience and smart negotiating tactics.