Your best bet might be to let their lease expire and then give them notice that you are not renewing their lease.  

I recently read “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert Kiyosaki, as many of you have.

That’s the best bet.

He wants to keep most of my deposit, deducting for items that were in poor condition when I moved in and only returning 15% of the deposit to me.

That’s the best bet.

I'm wondering if house hacking may be the best bet for you? 

I also want to ensure I can scale and don't want to hamstring myself by making a poor decision now and deploying the capital on a bad deal so there is a bit of trigger shyness.

Best bet would be to turn it over to a collections agency and take the few dollars (if that) they collect.Sucks, but it is reality.  

That’s the best bet.

I’m interested in hearing if anyone here has bought a poorly run self storage facility before and what the process looked like for acquiring it, transitioning management, and how you dealt with tenants who were consistently late, paid in cash only, lived in the units, dealt drugs from the units, and did other sketchy things.