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> I target professionals to avoid problems (students), but not rich professionals

Can you go into more detail here? I've heard this before that having too high of an income can count against you as a tenant - presumably because the tenant has the wherewithal to make the landlord's life unpleasant if they really felt like it.

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I don't avoid very high income earners, it's just that the unit I'm renting is a small house I could afford to live in at the time I bought it. This unit naturally fits a certain, soon to be upper middle income young family. However, I'm currently renting the units to a couple who just moved into the city that each makes more than what my wife and I make.

My biggest concern with them was that they'd only want to rent for a few months to get to know the city before buying a place of their own. A missed renewal is very expensive (lost income) and time consuming.

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