Lenders perception- Lenders don't have perception.  

Actually, I think you hit it right on the head with this one, we are not Detroit, we are CLE "Cleveland" Our housing stock and rental market is lush with fruitful inventory, we have been a workhorse during tough times and a stallion during good times, I recommend checking out some of my other posts about CLE, and I encourage you to come visit us, I assure you that you will develop a whole new perception of our great city and everything it has to offer.

The listing agent may offer a percentage of their 6% to the buyer's agent, if so, the buyer pays the difference to their buyer agent.I think people have a false perception that the seller pays all of the the real estate agent commissions.

It all comes down to perception.

Saying you are in the "help" business is starting out with a perception problem of being a scam man.

If a gift card makes a difference to your tenants you've got a problem with the perception of your product, and a gift card isn't going to fix that.

It seems that you may have a different view of what my perception of the meaning of "less passive" is.What you have stated above is why I consider that option to be "less passive" due to further involvement with the investment 

When the vertical lines in your space show up in the photograph as actually vertical, is gives the perception to the viewer that there is order.

@Terry Louwerse, learn what you can and resist the siren's call of the up-sell.

I'd say to contact the inspector(s) you've got good relationships with and not knowing the whole situation this is one you'd have to decide exactly how to handle it, but maybe its setting up a meeting with one of the supervisors or just talking on the phone, but with the goal of getting the point across that you want to spread the word throughout their office (and admittedly, its a large city with a lot of inspectors, we're not just talking about like 5 people here) but to get the point across that you are in this for the long term, you will be keeping your properties in great shape, etc because like I said before, from the DNS point of view and especially being from out of town (and double that for being from Chicago, which for whatever reason, SOME Milwaukee people think of as being something bad) for all they know, you could be the latest out of town slumlord and you need to smash that perception into a million pieces and that may well be something you'll have to do many times over, but its not that hard to do.