Structuring your lease in this way would benefit you by 1) locking in a longer term contract to avoid turnover costs and vacancy loss; 2) it moves your lease end date out of the winter season and into spring/summer of 2026 so it can be more easily marketed and re-rented to match the seasonal demand cycle; and 3) it avoids any upset/angry tenants who may have been incorrectly assuming their rent was going to stay in the $1,200 range after their first 6-month lease term.Would love to hear any updates you have on how this one shakes out for you though!

This feels like an odd approach, but it also feels like it could be fruitful if something happens to shake loose.

Meeting some applicants at the units I show, leaves me shaking my head like ah hell no!

This part is really annoying (I can see you all shaking your collective heads yup right now) especially when you have a lot to wipe down.

There are going to be more fed-up landlords, divorces, foreclosures, etc than you can shake a stick at. 

Then they get divorced, and want to rent a place from me, and I'm telling em there scary as hell HIGH risk, and they just don't get it, shake there head saying but, but, but they make a ton. yeah, they do, AND they have spent 3 tons.

I will lay siege to the gods and shake up the world

Shake it off and readjust.

Here's my answer...all the time:  I shake my head in disbelief, look up to the Heavens, and say, "NO".Why?  

It’s a shake down.