The $28,000 includes all costs associated with paying the tenant to leave as well as the cost to renovate the unit so it can command market rent.Detailed Version: I have a 4 unit apartment building in Los Angeles.

It looks like you're using an older version of the standard Texas Association of Realtors lease.

I recommend that, as I actually enjoyed the audio version.

This is a good article that talks about lighting and getting the right size fixture for more punch, as well as better lighting:http://www.dlglighting.com/blogs/dlg-style/7700179...You can get cheaper versions of wrought iron-looking fixtures at Home Depot that look nice:http://www.homedepot.com/s/home%2520decorators%252...

Oh, you'd better believe I have an air tight holding deposit he signed and I have a copy of my version of the receipt. 

 $100 off the rent would be acceptable.Love,YouOr some version of that.  

A SFH I own was being re-prepped to re-rent and was being advertised by the PM company.Who, as is ever increasingly more evident, apparently do whatever they want, often ignoring what I tell them to do, and then if it's ever questioned they have a version of The Story which makes it all my fault.

Sort of a pet-friendly landlord's version of the Welcome Wagon!

So the quick version of this is:My mom moved from the area (sf bay area to so-cal) and kept her house here.

My point it, there might be another side to the story and now that those 'squatters' may be inconvenient to the tenant, she might be telling you her version, to manipulate into doing what she wants you to do.