I don't see rent rates increasing greatly in my area for the foreseeable future.Any other landlords here experiment with locked rent prices for a pre-set duration?

Even if one decided to leave they are contracted legally to pay the rent for the duration of the lease.

I'll spend more time at the gym this week than I will at that property the entire duration I own it.

Allowing fully-assumable loans increases the duration of the money for the lender and thus their interest rate risk.

If that duration of time is too far out for your seller you may balloon the payment say at 60 months or 5 years.Certainly an interest rate to your benefit is where you want to end up.

I wonder if it will apply to a small project where the constructed units should all sell in the same accounting year and project duration should not be more than 2 years ?

While the time frame of the project will be much longer with raw land, the bulk of the money will go in towards the end of the project (when you start building), and IRR is sensitive to the timing of inflows and outflows, not just the total duration.That said, if you do a basic ROI calculation, it would likely be the other way around (higher ROI with developed land), as ROI isn't sensitive to the timing of cash in/out, just the duration of the project.

Nobody knew anybody else and even though the lease duration was 1 year everybody was fine with that because there was a verbal (learned my lesson there!)

In my area & in my leases, tenants are required to set up utilities before they can move in, and maintain those utilities for the duration of their tenancy.

Any tips for resources to find neighborhood stats such as home sales, occupancy rates, duration home are staying on the market for?