If your place is getting trashed like that, I would tighten up on my screening and inspection criteria.

So you have to think about how to hedge the bet as you have to play the game, and not try to time the peak or bottom, as your more likely to miss it than hit the mark.So tighten up your numbers, shave advertised rents a little or a lot, and ask them to give you the property for a dollar and buy you lunch, joking on the last two.

One great trick is to mount the saw upside down to a sawhorse or small worktable, then you can crosscut or rip right on your marked line easily without straining to see the line through the dust or control the tool. 

In the future I will tighten up the language and put a number on it when I sub meter.

Tighten down on the spending like Troy stated.

Selling Guide Fannie Mae Single Family Part B, Origination Through Closing Subpart 3, Underwriting Borrowers Chapter 5, Credit Assessment, Traditional Credit History pages 463, 465-466 https://www.fanniemae.com/content/guide/sel011713.pdfThere are what they call "lender overlays" which banks and lenders will tighten up the Fannie/Freddie guidelines to improve their overall performance.

At the same time I've heard FHA has been tightening the belt on getting into homes as cheaply as before, this I think is a good thing but who knows how it will effect the market as a whole.

The credit standards were tightened to a more reasonable level and we saw a 20% drop in real estate prices.

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If youre worried about grout getting filthy, tighten up the grout joints as well as use a dark grout.