Call your bank and tell them your entire travel itinerary . This way your cards won ' t get frozen as soon as you try to use them overseas . If you need to call them you can call 800 numbers for free with skype and wifi . <| sep |> Honestly I just look at it like I look at stocks you gotta know when to hold and when to take an L . I mean , if you ' re still welloff without him why not give him notice and start looking for a new tenant ? If you don ' t find the right person after he leaves and want to make extra cash , provided you ' re okay with the risk , there ' s always Airbnb until you get someone new . It just seems to me that at this stage you ' ve made a less than stellar investment and it is potentially going to cost you to lose more potential earnings by holding on to it . There ' s an opportunity cost to this type of decision and it could cost you more money in the long run . While he ' s there you don ' t and can ' t have a tenant who ' s not only paying you rent possibly more rent than he could but doesn ' t break shit . Hell , the opportunity to draft a formal and well though out contract with the next person and start fresh is reason enough to want to move on from this guy . And trust me , if this guy that ' s with you now has a history of this behavior he ' ll do it again . It ' s like holding on to an old car you have to keep fixing vs biting the bullet and buying a new one . I know you hate being confrontational and I sympathize because I was and still am that way too . But at this stage I think it would be best to part ways before it ' s more than a washing machine .