- We've got an owner we're about ready to terminate because we email them information that they refuses to read and always wants us to call them and spend hours talking about it.

That means there are sometimes you have to get people off the list who are not opening your emails, or buying anymore, and add people who were buying years ago stopped, and now are back in.

Just a suggestion for after you call or go in person - send the person a follow up email with a recap of what they told you.

It is what it is there now and I can imagine this being the same in other areas, too).  

I will say it was disclosed to us in a fine print email, but it was definitely not clearly told to us and many people are migrating away because we have our direct sites listed as fee free and they no longer would be.I did extensive research last year when signing up and Hostfully was my runner up and that’s why I am switching to them.

(Imagine the entire value of your property being just the 20-25% downpayment on a 4-5x larger property and the resulting depreciation.) 

- Would it be better to send my proposal and negotiation request via email first?

Not sure how they could block a sale but I imagine they told him the central heating unit for the whole complex would soon need replacement so a special assessment would be upcoming.  

Imagine a platform like Zillow, Redfin, Trulia, etc. where the seller can market their property while receiving assistance in offer recognition/negotiation.

However this would obviously require substantial work and we probably wouldn't have the funds for years.Since I think we'd be losing money to rent it out (if we were to move) at our current rate with a conventional loan, I'm imagining maybe some kind of seller finance situation... which gets back to my question, what kind of deal could we present to our landlord that they might find appealing and gets us the chance to at least break even on rent?