I want them out, so they should leave or I'll have to play hard ball.3.

I can only imagine how many calls you would get asking to be bring keys to let a tenant in because the battery is dead in a smart lock or some other issue (and I have smart locks on my personal home, just none of my rentals).

If you’re concerned about owning and controlling the building, condos probably won’t ever be a good play for you.

REP would come into play if you have losses - expensing items creates a larger net loss and REPs losses aren't capped at passive activity income.

And I have ran into several dead ends.

So this went back and forth between lawyers and nothing happened, dead silence again for another month UNTIL 8 days before closing with the other buyer. 

It can be a pretty big deal and isn't anything worth playing with. 

I assume it's in the lender's best interest that I close after this policy comes into play, or is that not the case?

We did research on area and we knew there are bad elements but i think we underestimated the problem (You know mind plays with us when we have already decided to do something especially when you have overconfidence on yourself ).

A kid playing outside can break the window and you will collapse in tears.