But if you can "trick" her by focusing on payment amount only more power to ya I guess. 

For every safeguard you put in place I can probably show you a way to trick it as there's a way around almost everything.

Why are the 'dirty tricks' only available to deadbeat tenants and squatters where as the landlords must helplessly wait for the justice system to work in their favor?

I've been using "Subject To" and other various creative techniques for over twenty years and I've learned a few things along the way that may make it easier and less risky if you are trying to use them yourself.1) Fir...

I have dealt with evicting tenants before and during this process they will pull all the trick to try and get as much free rent as possible.

For me, that is the case until today.Even though every purchase we made was profitable, I think I had made some major mistakes, due to lack of knowledge.As we move from SFR to apartments to mobile home parks, there are still a lot of things that needs to be learned.I just recently learned a new trick from an old guy on mobile home flips.

A little trick I learned from doing an IRA conversion from traditional IRA to Roth counted as income for the year.

The trick is to do your numbers, Twice.

If some $50k owed midwest SFR is stopping you from buying a great 3/4 of a million dollar asset, it's a no-brainer to cut a $50k check to pay it off, some way or another.And then you have the "....and now we put 10 in the spouse's name" trick, too (you haven't been putting all of these in both names for no reason up to this point, have you?).

@Natalie Kolodij  Well you can teach and old dog (actually a gator) new tricks.