Your story provides a valuable perspective for those considering real estate investing and offers a refreshing take on the necessity of expensive guru courses.It's unfortunate that many seminars and programs often present themselves as the only path to success in real estate, pressuring attendees to spend significant amounts of money on courses that may not be essential.

Unless they forget to renew/refresh it to give themselves another 10+ years. 

Seeing someone actually say the truth about this on these forums is refreshing. 

We changed everything, defied all odd's, shook the world itself.There is a story of history that a great Japanese military leader, when received the news of the great success of the attack on Peral Harbor, stood somber, silent, surprising all around him.

Question is do you want to lose a tenant over this and suffer a possible eviction process and a unit refresh or can you find another solution?

I refresh our lots list every few weeks and look at infill lots by price per acre, density allowed, new build average price and price per square foot, deliveries per year, etc as a driver for it.

Otherwise you always have the unknown of big changes  My purchasing criteria is to buy in the area with the strictest housing and STR regulation and a few miles from the Hilton resort.I guess 50% of my Airbnb book is from US traveller, the rest are European and Japanese travelers.

I give tenants that are loyal, pay on time, a carpet shampoo with lease renewal, refresh paint in a room, but they all get market price increase if I'm increasing rents.. 

I am so glad to hear Didier had a great (all be it long) experience with Lower.com back in 2022, refreshing to hear forgiveness regarding the long term times considering it was in the heart of the low rate boom  - posistive expierences is absolutely our main priority and we're proud that's lead to those amazing reviews Cody mentioned up front!

The building is free and clear with no mortgage but needs a refresh.