Should you avoid becoming friends with your tenants?

[Daniel Fitzroy]

What if you owned rental properties and when you went out to take care of a tenants complaint, you had a great chat with them and they invite you to go do something fun with them that you both enjoy like fishing for example.

Would you say sure lets go! Or would you politely pass because you're concerned it may cause issues and you'd rather maintain a strictly 100 percent business relationship with them? I was just reading posts on here and this random question popped into my mind. Just wondering what you guys would do?

[Nathan Gesner]

I would politely decline the offer and keep the relationship as business. You can make friends somewhere else. Once you cross that line, it becomes impossible to turn it back into a strictly business relationship when something goes wrong.