In any event, the leak in bathroom 1 and leak in bathroom 2 resulted in my water bill spiking up more than $1,000 (above and beyond the norm).

Here are some thoughts:1) The traffic issue with the pet business is definitely something to consider. 2) Some may differ with me on whether a pet business is an "essential business" and how it will do in the next pandemic spike, but that would also be a concern.3) Having three tenants in the building instead of two will also reduce risk.4) The buildout that the pet business does may not be easily used by the tenant that moves in after them.Hope this helps,

With the amount of people getting mortgages and others refinancing, their has been a huge spike in there workload. 

Perfect storm for a price spike. 

This property was a great opportunity in an area of Austin that had not yet seen appreciation spikes.

It took 60 days but spiked my score back up 120 points or so where it should have been.

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so you have capital drying up some what. which caused rates to spike up.now they suspended that rule and I was thinking maybe rates will come back down a tad.. and one person responded and said that was the case. 

It is related to interest rates, the biggest factor I see for any decline in RE valuations nationwide would be a huge spike in interest rates.

Our tenants usually drag their heels on lease renewal so I think that is fairly typical, especially if a rent increase is involved.We generally have three options, the third is "Month to month" and the monthly rate is higher than the year lease rate.