Instead, I write an early payment bonus.

You could also put a rent increase clause for a pet, maybe an additional $25 per month/per pet.Instead of a late fee, I write an early payment bonus.

The commission paid to the agent came out of the recorded sales price.My advice to FSBOs is do you comp research and pocket the "commission" as a bonus for selling the house yourself.

Perhaps get the option and try and sell it off to the neighbor as a bonus lot for more.

The only way it makes sense to drag it out is if his father is making a greater than 3.2% return on his cash.So the interest deduction is not really a bonus, it is simply just convenience for when you do have the loan.

Then any profits from the company were paid as "bonuses" which saved a considerable amount of state and federal taxes.

Are they a headache you don't want to deal with, or are they an added bonus to make $ off of?

What a great bonus after you've seen some regular income from rents.Bob, I'm also curious about that as well (assuming you're speaking of LTV).

If the market continues to appreciate that will be an added bonus.

As an added bonus, in all likelyhood the value of your property has appreciated OTOH, if the basic structure is ALSO in poor condition, AND the roof is bad, and its not that great of a location, or floorplan, or... then it won't make any difference- you're looking at a teardown.It also probably won't work if you are unable or unwilling to do any of the work yourself; and/or if you are picking all new contractors out of the Yellow Pages.In general, I disagree with the idea of doing just enough to get it rented, then make it nice when its time to sell.