I bought a property a year ago in Las Vegas. It had a pre-existing tenant who was there for the past few years.

He's been fine for the most part, signed a new lease in January with a very minor increase (I think 25 bucks).

However, the last four months he's been late with the rent. 

I believe he lost his job, but does receive unemployment. He does pay, with late fees, eventually. He's yet to pay October rent, but I believe he eventually will (he's sometimes late by 2 weeks).

He never gives notice that he's not paying on time and usually pays before the 7 day non-payment notice expires.

His lease comes up in late January and we have to send a 60 day notice (from what my property manager says) if we plan to renew the lease and/or increase rent (so sometime next month we have to send a notice).

I actually own 3 others in that community and he's paying as much as 300 less per month than some of my others.

However, this is not about the money, I own everything free and clear, this is more about headaches. I would have gladly renewed the lease with another minor increase had not all of these issues come up.

I just don't want to issue a new lease, I would rather non-renew, remodel and rent for more. There are just too many red flags of future issues.

What would you do in my position?

I'm hoping that when I non-renew he voluntarily leaves to a new place (which may be hard getting approved with him being out of work but I can't worry about that)

I've never had to evict anyone before. If he refuses to leave at the end of the lease or stops paying rent, how hard would it be to evict in the current landscape? Some of my friends have been able to evict non-paying tenants without issues, especially when there was no lease involved, but since I've never been through this before I have idea what's going on in the courts at the moment.