As I have told real estate investors so many times in the past, there are two kinds of landlords, professionals and amateurs. I have always found that those who join rental housing associations are more likely to be professional in their approach to the business at hand, and it is an honor and a pleasure to deal with true professionals in any field. If you find yourself viewing your tenants as anything other than your business partners, then you need to take some time out to examine how you got yourself into this position, and the benefit in rethinking this concept.
Lets look at the facts.
When it is a successful partnership, the tenant enjoys a comfortable and secure living environment for the family, and the landlord enjoys the growth in equity of the investment. A partnership can never be successful if you do not trust your partner. Once you begin to distrust or dislike your partner, the question is not if the partnership will fail, but when and under what terms. But you do have to believe that they are worthy of half of the partnership. If you don't trust one of your business partners, take the first opportunity to legitimately dissolve the partnership.