I absolutely believe that your strongest position of power in sales is when you hold an item that someone else wants.

Sure QB can do some of the items, but it is sort of like using a trumpet shaped bazooka to kill an ant.

I think you might just have to accept that you should have known this going in (60 year old broken windows are a "replace" item) and your budget is busted.I hope you're okay with advice that isn't rosy.

Preventing the sig other from removing the property doesn't quite fit this element, as the the Landlord is simply trying to establish ownership rights for items that he could conceivably be responsible for; since they are residing within his/her property.

If you get a recorded judgement it is going to show up on their credit report even if you don't place it with a collection agency.Also, the items reported by these agencies are the absolute easiest to challenge and get removed because the agency just won't spend the time to push back on a challenge.

Patti if there are portable sheds and items that are YOUR PROPERTY not inside the mobile home you can take those as they are not the property of your tenant.You would have to make sure the tenant did not store anything of his inside those buildings.The reason you are getting trouble with the police is you are doing a "self-help" eviction which is against the law.When the landlords make a mistake they simply can't knock on the door and tell the tenant "I screwed up letting you rent here now get out now".Even if the tenant left a pro-bono attorney would have a field day with you for doing such things.If the tenant is doing drugs maybe you could file a report on them with the police and get them arrested.This is of course not legal advice of any kind.Trailers are a real tough business.You usually get transients and other unstable tenants that won't qualify for a regular apartment or renting a hotel by the week.You get a couple if nice folks but many are bad and trash the units.My mom's friends have been in the business of renting mobiles homes for 40 years and have about 50 or so.Just had one trashed like you are describing the other day.They buy the trailers real cheap because they know they will take a beating.Maybe the land the trailer sits on is worth a bunch of money.You could get this tenant out and sell the land and take the cash and invest in something with less of a headache.

Fundamentally I'm more interested in utilizing debt-like funds to capitalize projects I'm working on than I am about the tax items.

Rented single family home in March and the tenant was late in payment in May (which I gave her grace period and first time late fee waiver) and again she was late in June but said that she paid but bank paid to wrong acct etc..In July she hasn't paid rent yet and when I sent her texts and email which she hasn't replied and suddenly this evening I get an email saying she is withholding rent because I haven't fixed the items in the house.

The only items noted on the move out checklist was a broken rail on a kitchen cabinet drawer, and a dirty carpet.

Mr. 700+ FICO got evicted and Mr. and Mrs. 500+ FICO have been there over a year paying on time without any drama.If you keep the process strictly a business decision, you won't have to worry running afoul any discrimination claims.Thanks, but I think I'm going to try an experiment and change my criteria so that the cutoff is FICO score 600 (and no derogatory items from a landlord on the report, regardless of score).