force yourself to push through any discomfort and pain and make that decision you need to make. If a tenant is always late with payments, or is paying you in incomplete amounts, or is refusing to (or, sadly, unable to) pay you at all, then they’ve got to go. Look at this way: Technically, they’re stealing money from you by not paying according to the terms of the lease. If you let someone live in your house for free without paying you and you don’t file for eviction, then you might as well give someone access to your bank account and let them have at it. That might seem a bit harsh, and I’ll be the first to admit that it’s often challenging to evict people who need to go, but in this business, you have to be prepared to make tough decisions and then follow through when the time comes. Evicting people who don’t deserve to live in your home is just one example of a tough decision you might have to make when renting out your property. If you just can’t handle confrontation and dealing with potentially tough and difficult emotional challenges, then maybe serving as a landlord is just not cut out for you. This doesn’t mean you can’t rent out your home and reap the many benefits that come with that, if you do it right; it just means you should consider having a professional property manager manage your home for you. I can say this confidently because, as a professional property manager myself, I know that if I don’t make those tough decisions, if I don’t file for eviction on someone who’s stealing money from my landlords, I’m going to get myself fired. And so, technically they’re stealing money from me, from my family. So,
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