Materials have increased more than 20% in the last 5-8 years.

If you no longer wish to renew your subscription, you can turn off auto-renew at any time.It's an annoying increase, but I get it.

Do you see Nike cold calling customers or driving for dollars?

I got a call earlier this week from a customer I installed a deck for back in 2002 .

We are not aware of any price increase so far.We will inform you in advance if there are any changes."

We are looking to eventually relocate to the States so would like to start building our portfolio in a State that has consistent appreciation with room for rents to increase going forward. 

The longer term loans would have lowered your monthly payments and decreased the costs.As for rent, each year you need to look at rents in the area to decide how much you will be increasing the rent by. 

Historically, the average days on market (DOM) for rental properties only increases by about 6 days during November and December.

It's kind of disconcerting when I can only raise rents by 5% but insurance is increasing by 10% to 15% per year. 

(We are working on a generalized survey to collect info on our buyers/potential buyers so we can make sure we understand who our customers are while trying to dial in their preferences and patterns.)You are doing great things.