In the past, I have dropped off chocolates or included a gift card for a dinner.

and the ones on the house are chocolate brown instead of faded red.

Life (real estate) is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get!  

The reason why is that appraisers are, to quote Forrest Gump, "Like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get".  

Quicken/Rocket, United Wholesale, Homepoint, and so on, all being major wholesale mortgage players, all headquartered in/around metro Detroit (good place for cost effective hard-working workers, call it the Motor City work ethos of their parents still being around if you want, but good luck having good rates, low costs, and smooth operations, if your 8k or 20k workers are in San Francisco making San Francisco salaries, it's not like this is bread or chocolate where the wonderful Pacific ocean air is going to infuse into the mortgages and make them "taste" any better...).

My wife and I have been married for nearly 5 years, have a beautiful 11-mo old daughter and two chocolate labs.

The Seller does't care, since most of the time, the sale price has a hefty margin in it above acquisition, rehab and holding that any rental payments are simply icing on a triple chocolate fudge cake with ice cream.Clearly, this pool has much of the same characteristics.

And finally, eat two scoops of double chocolate fudge ice cream, book a flight to " . . . . . wherever" and take a sheet of paper and a pen and write down every idea that comes to mind.

This is kind of like asking "Should I eat a chocolate or vanilla ice cream cone, or a piece of pie, or should I skip dessert altogether?" 

Other interests include ancient history, biking, tennis, chocolate (dark), and travel.