It's time to see that third unit, you can't decide without seeing it.As a carpenter you should be able to raise the height of the windows, put up railing, make them unable to open... something so a kid can't fall out.How about a spiral stair case? 

And in the other 10% of the time, most of them agree to my counteroffer.Anyhow, you certainly should not let him off the hook because that could spiral out of control.

The upward spiral of appreciation in vegas has stopped, you'll see a steady increase over the next couple of years of 3-5% annualized, but you won't see the 20% that we saw '11 and '12

If you make the late fee ridiculous and it spirals out of control on the tenant they have little incentive to catch back up and it's often easier for them to sit there and not pay until they have enough money to move elsewhere.

For our first venture in providing holiday lighting we just bought a set of three spiral trees that had white lights.

But that just started the downward spiral.

If prices drop and this place gets down to $40K and someone says wow it makes 2% they will buy it and stop the downward spiral of the price dropping.

This way I don't get caught as the market spirals downward.

It bothered me a bit that if the HOA had too many people not paying their HOA fees, they might start skimping on maintenance, and things could spiral down.

Not if your frontal cortex is melted when you arrive home after nine hours of repetitive bullsh** floating in a stew of mediocrity and your days off are spent watching the minute hand spiral toward the inevitability that you must once again return to imbibe of said stew the next day.