You can have these people give you visual reports so you know if the tenants are destructive.Otherwise, if you vet your tenants, you'll tend to get people who are respectful and care about getting their deposit back, so they will take good care of the property.That said, property managers can't make money if they milk their clients dry.

Mr Mustache and then there was the couple that collected social security and lived in their van traveling where the good weather took them.

As such, they are more likely to milk the process for every last dime and recommend that the seller decline even reasonable offers and then respond with the tagline "Only put forth your best and highest offer". 

He chose to stay as long as possible and told other residents in the building he was just taking advantage of us because the court was closed, and he was planning to milk it as long as possible. 

So no Kalashnikovs in the basement, no seed stocks, no Nigerian dwarf goats for milk sustenance production on a hidden homestead, no group bunker membership, no sperm on ice for future cloning.

I would only replace them now if you had a crazy good deal like a free used unit they have to throw away or something. the math I've done in the past led me to decide that as long as repairs stay under 250 per year to milk the units for all they are worth,  I keep repairing.

Then you could also rent to a cheesemaker who will turn the cows milk into a high value product.https://youtu.be/EbJc8i5B9RU

Here's how you use these percent rules:2% = the milk you drink50% = is the amount of people (I looked this up) that drink 2% milk70% = the amount of people that used to drink 2% milk 10 years agoOther than that, for REI, these percentages are useless. 

In this case, the PM is just there to collect checks and milk the cash cow as instructed by the slumlord.

While I would encourage any landlord to use assistance programs out there to work with tenants who are trying but struggling to pay rent, if they are just milking it or causing serious problems other than not paying rent, you may still have options.