I understand that it will take time for these actions to be fruitful.

And you just expect him to turn over the fruits of these years of work to you, for free?

Sometimes it's a gift basket I send, sometimes it's a GC to a restaurant, but for the good tenants, I always want them to know they're appreciated and I enjoy doing this small thing for them.  

I've dealt with First Mortgage in the past and all they did was attack low hanging fruit and bailed on me when I was going after my 3rd, 4th, and 5th house.  

Buffet owns railroads, reality companies, insurance companies, Dairy Queen, Fruit of the Loom, jewelry companies, construction companies, major shares in Apple and the list goes on.

We even tried mailing with a Design of Experiments (DOE), 32-run, Plackett-Burman Screening Design with a process improvement statistician and that was not fruitful. 

Now I understand why you should not put all your eggs in one basket. 

However about 15 months of that was spent trying to get it done on my own and that was not fruitful.

Add a vase of flowers or bowl of fruit to the counter to tie the floor colors and walls together. 

." - Thomas Jefferson "To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." - Thomas Jefferson