Why fight with someone over $100 if they are paying 15K, 18K a year and are long time tenants.

Mud wrestling and MB Ghetto fights!

I really wouldn't worry about her leaving much.Keep her deposit and give it to the new owner as compensation for losing the tenant if they get upset about it.Let the loser go without a fight so she doesn't trash and damage the place on the way out the door.Tell the new owner it's a wonderful opportunity to raise the rent for the next tenant.

Feels like everything is an emergency and you end up fighting fires from the time you get up until the time you go to sleep.

I know fighting mice is tough going. especially if behavior encourages it.

Sure you could . . . you'd forfeit your security deposit if you broke the lease, but I'm sure if you had a conversation with your landlord and explained that your options are to stay and fight him or leave and move out, he'd be willing to negotiate on the deposit issue.

Of course the contractor that is hired is probably so poor for working on those projects they couldn't pay 10 bucks for an attorney to fight it.

Couples will be a living nightmare for you, plus they'll run up the utilities, make more noise (or fight), and one of them would be living there for free.

Well, I've only been to eviction court a few times in over a decade and haven't lost yet so I don't know what's so tenant friendly about it.Maybe it is the fact that it takes months to get someone out of the house if they fight the eviction?

However, most investors (I'm not saying this includes Rich) would fight giving the property back to the seller and would thus drag their credit through the mud while the lawsuit was pending.