(i.e. gift card for dinner or spa treatment) If the house is livable, the rent should be paid in full.

I finally got the courage to send him a message and ask if he would mind sitting down with me for lunch or dinner one day and we could go over some details of flipping houses.

And my tenants were in the middle of making dinner when that photo was taken, so don't give them too hard of a time on the mess. ;-) Thanks!

If you use a realtor as a research assistant it doesn't hurt to either toss them a referral or if their state /broker allows, to pay for their time or gift them a dinner somewhere nice.

No dinners out for any celebrations, no quick weekend beach jaunts.

You get to talk for an hour before the speakers, you get to maybe go to dinner afterwards with some of the people you met there or arranged to meet.

Building community with dinners, parties, and group outings also becomes vital.

When we do the walkthroughs people want to feed us get to know us we get invited for wine, dinners cookies family events.I am now convinced that is the discrepancy here.

I would pay attention to the bread dinner.

We live in Logan UT (90 minutes away) so are looking for recommendations from those familiar with the Pocatello area.If we end up loving the guy or company, we will take the recommender out to dinner wherever you want!