That can vary wildly and without that information, it's hard to give you any meaningful advice.

Though no one wants to feel taken advantage of, many people get great satisfaction by helping others.Dan,Actually, no I'm not interested, but if I'm going to provide meaningful assistance it's going to be long-term and yes, I charge for my time.  

sure...good point on fifty states, seen all fifty here plus some countries....so the variations by state are real and meaningful, so have to think about those....i find the uniform rules, even if passed, begin to morph through judicial decisions in each state anyway..

--The banks have done a wonderful PR job telling us about their concern for homeowners but a totally inept and irresponsible job of doing meaningful loan modifications.

I was told they had to drop the motor to replace the spark plugs!

Only the most repeat, of repeat offenders do meaningful jail time.

IRR provides more "color" but ultimately, without a meaningful discount rate, they are equally useless.Just my $.02...

They guy is always in there welding things and with the sparks flying, it can be dangerous.I need to get these people out but my concern is that they live like pigs and their unit is super gross, they may try to put it on me and say I haven't given them habitable conditions.

Since most of our members probably have email lists, I was thinking that perhaps we could offer points for promoting via newsletter, but a)I don't want people to annoy folks guru-style and b) I think tracking would be incredibly difficult . . . just wanted to share in case this sparks other good ideas.

There is no gas, no oil changes, no brake jobs (regenerative braking provides most of the stopping power), no alternator, no spark plugs, no exhaust system, no belts, etc.