You would only be decreasing your commission in the last scenario, not the listing agents commission.

However, most of them have their scent glands removed and have been spayed or neutered which will dramatically decrease any scent they might produce.

Try to understand the cycle of the local market to see when it would be best for your to have your rentals come up for renewal in an effort to maximize your rent roll and decrease vacancy rates.

As folks get older, their ability to drive decreases.

Since these often change, your escrow account will fluctuate as property taxes rise or fall and insurance increases or decreases.

An actual loan modification, meaning decrease of interest or balance or restructuring of the terms happens very infrequently.

At best it decreases slowly until you get quite far along with paying off the loan.4) You can't work on the property.

so you're trying to qualify based upon 2 mortgages and, that's right, zippo revenue. get the couple years of tax returns and your DTI will greatly decrease (you get credit for 75% of the rent minue your PITA)

Goal: Increase their income or decrease there expenses so they are living in there means.  

It is a great example of why one must be careful when reading about real estate in the popular media. 1st paragraph "pool of available homes has dwindled dramatically" This lead them to the conclusion as to why in the 2nd paragraph they said"In May inventory levels grew by nearly 6%"Paragraph 5 talks about inventory "jumping' Which contradicts their rational in the 1st paragraph the prices are increasing due to decrease inventory.