Also when that little 1 year friend jumps up and down it will soften the vibration. 

Keeping my fingers crossed that new construction is still desirable with the recent market softening and that there will be some bounce from the early spring buyers.- Expand my assistant's responsibilities to include some construction management.

Are we finally seeing a softening in the market?

If you do all of this you'll be far less exposed to loss of property value, and you'll be cash flowing well even if the market softens.

Just as everywhere the prices are high these days but started softening up.

It’s detrimental to society when we try to soften the language we use to describe things that make us feel negative emotions.

I always remove washer/dryer, remove water softener, remove house humidifiers, block off fire places and never install a garbage disposal.

We soften that blow by building some equity for ourselves in value add.We built our portfolio on debt (impatience expressed financially) but got past 20 a couple years after we adopted a growth strategy.

At some point (if not already), buyers will be legitimately priced out of the market.However, Buffet is more well known for his quote that it is wise for investors to be “fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.”Especially in New York City, this is a golden time to get in the market when interest rates are low and housing prices have softened.

Who is responsible for routing maintenance such as changing furnace filters, water softener salt, etc?