What's a good message to express the benefits to these people?

@Rob KLOL I've never heard that expression before.

I will say that I have zero confidence in the US Postal Service and the sooner they go the way of the Pony Express, the better.

Like @David Krulac I fall in-between the polar points expressed here.Though we hold mostly multi-family properties, we do have a few SFRs which are student rentals at this time.In the case of a property that may be sold to a retail buyer, I agree that you would wait until you were preparing for disposition to affect the final cosmetic renewal and possible quality upgrades (i.e. moving to soap stone counters in the kitchen).That said, we look to affect efficiency retrofits early in our ownership of a property - usually at the first opportunity provided by turnover.

We took our daughter and my wife's little sister to the Polar Express.

However, you won't get many to help in future if you forget to express some gratitude, even for those with an agenda or those you disagree with.Having participated and supported a number of forums over the years, I encourage poster to "take the best and leave the rest."

They mostly rely on county assessors website which can't give provide you enough data to compare that as a comp.Wanted to express my 2 cents.

The Lender expressed interest and thought the investment fit one of his programs.

I agree with all the sentiments expressed here and I'll leave you with these thoughts.1.

Btw, the seller hasn't expressed interest in seller financing (I only made him an offer that would make sense for me to buy & rehab) but I just want to get "practice" thinking of more ways to make offers.