This keeps a personal mortgage off our credit report (hopefully freeing us up to jump on another property).Obviously we're in a privileged position. 

@Bryan BealYour privilege to express your freedom is blatant disrespect for all the front line health care workers in this country who are risking their lives to help victims of this virus.

You have your attorney sign the Land Trust as a "nominee trustee," that way their name is on the public record and protected by attorney-client privilege.

We have to be careful what we say, how we speak of others, can't abuse our access to privilege information, etc.

I wish I would have had this mindset earlier but I realized recently that working for someone else is a privilege to try things out (FSU) on someone else's dine.

You are paying for that privilege but you will not be using it.

it's really just better to let them go.Can you ask them for a little higher rent for the "privilege" until they decide they want to sign another lease? 

I don't worry so much about what my tenants might feel about the value of the gift, or that they'd rather have cheaper rent - what would concern me more is their impression that we have now somehow become "friends", and that they thus are now empowered with all the rights and privileges thereof.

But, charge a higher rent for the privilege of doing so, with the extra benefit of no extra drama for you.It's not about being benevolent to people who want to buy a home, blah blah - that's not your job - to care about doing them favors because they want to buy a home.  

The business across the street had been allowing my tenants to park in his lot in the winter if they paid him $200 for the season, but they abused the privilege, messed up his plowing, parked more than the allowed number of cars, etc.