Milk your w-2 for all its worth, and throw the extra money into good deals.4.

Landlord had everything documented, as she ran through the dates and events there was a clear escalation and it was quite apparent the tenant was just setting it up for milking out as much free rent as possible.

They're milking it because it feeds their ego.  

@Natalie Cloutier Thanks for sharing your email, I want to communicate with my tenants that there is help and understanding available...but at the same time I don't want to give them ideas that I'm prepared to wheel and deal with them and open up a door that they can milk.

They will milk the system as long as they can.. even if you offer them 2x month rent it would not benefit them to move out and use that on another place when in 30 days they will be paying rent again vs not moving and not having to pay until the courts allow evictions to process..

Make sure your investment property supports itself in a way in which it does not matter the external conditions.Here's a dumb analogy that I like to illustrate the situation:The way I see it is if your cow gives you milk every day, you will not care how fat it is, however if you need to slaughter it to eat, you will definitely want it to be fat and that may not be the case.All the best to you!

They milked it for years.

Maybe he joined a Cult, maybe he is on a milk carton, maybe he is touring with Phish, maybe he had a life moment like Peter Gibbons on Office Space or Patrick Bateman on American Psycho. 

When we moved up we moved into an ex barn that had been used to house milk cows but had been converted to have a kitchen area and a toilet.

That's kind of the Mustache approach.