No advice or experience on this, and I'm Canadian so likely it wouldn't apply even if I did. I am also looking at getting out of landlording.
I'm in British Columbia and own a single property that I have rented for 16 years, which, between maintenance expenses, increasing mortgage interest, insurance and property taxes, and strict provincial rent-protection laws is literally eating my retirement funds.**
I have tenants who have been there 6 years. They are now paying $700 a month below the basic carrying cost of the house. They are $1000 a month below market. I gave them a $30 rent increase in Jan because that was the maximum.
I have a 10,000K plus urgent pipe replacement based on last-minute demands from my home insurer happening next week.
Two years ago I could have evicted my tenants for that -- and I would have preferred to have an empty house instead of tenants with borderline hoarding tendancies -- but the province changed the rules last year.
Now you can't evict for anything except complete electrical replacement or removal of a load-bearing wall. And you have to get provincial approval, (which requires full permits and dates in advance) give them 4 months notice and a free month of rent.
The only way I can get them out is to move in myself. The property is 5 hours away including ferry, so that poses an issue. But we're planning, my partner and I, for next year. And I've told my tenant, to give them a head's up since that's what I'd wish for myself (the market here is bloody awful) and in the faint hope that they will do a purge. Although, I think most likely nothing will change until they get the formal 2 months notice.
Oh, yes. And if you lie to the tenant, tell them you're moving in and don't, the province fines you an entire year of rent and gives it to the tenant.
**Also, my personal income is business is downtown-based, in-person only. It has not recovered from covid. I've taken work outside the core, and its going well. But I'm locked into a lease for another year and a half.