We’re interested in cash flow and recycling our money.

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.

I did a maintenance inspection a week later and found recycling bins full of these same cans.

@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..

If you do it right, you'll be recycling your seed money over and over, USING it to infinity.  

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!

If I had to recycle my tenants every time there was an economic transition, I would have been out of business long ago.

They milked it for years.

They'll tell you and they'll tell you, and ultimately it's all baloney, which you'll find if you investigate enough.Then on the other hand, you'll get people in the window replacement industry who will talk about the purity of the argon between the panes, the e-coating, the seals failing, virigin vinyl being better than recycled vinyl, the glass is too thin...the windows have a lifetime guarantee.