Kicking out tenants who pay

[David Thornton]

I have been cleaning house a bit lately.  Getting rid of some bad tenants even though they do pay rent and take pretty good care of the units.  Most of the problems are reported by other residents, noise, smoking, smoking dope, fighting at all hours and confronting the good resents who report the problems.  I have giving a number of warnings but the problems continue.

I don't want to lose the good residents that live around them so the bad ones have to go.

They always want to know why we are not going to rent to them anymore.  I don't want tell them that we still are getting bad reports about them.  But I never really know quite what to say.  Any ideas?

[Kevin E.]

"I want to do a major remodel on that unit"

"I have a family member that I want to rent the place to"

"I've been thinking about moving into that unit"

"You have violated our noise/smoking/etc clause and have not heeded our warnings to comply or move out"

"I'm pretty sure I can get $xxx.xx for the place but don't want to stick that kind of increase to a current tenant"

"I know this is a terrible inconvenience for you. How 'bout I give you your entire deposit back and pay for your first month's rent at your new place?"