Moral of the story, think outside the box, serve those who are not served but can sell or buy.

Reminds me of the bumper sticker "He who dies with the most toys wins" or George Carlin - The new American pass time is consumption - maxing out your credit card buying things you don't need with money you don't have.

If the answer to that question is "nothing" or isn't something significant, I'd suggest that each of you invest in your own (smaller) properties individually and work together to provide moral support for one another and strategic brainstorming sessions.

We replaced all of them with dual flush (3.0l/4.8l, 0.8/1.2 usg) model and reduced the water consumption by ~35%.

Moral of the story hear, you would not want to take a DIL as the first mortgagee from the borrower first, it would be a headache.

To offset that consumption the rest of the property should create revenues to pay for that consumption and ideally provide a profit to the owner occupant after expenses.If you've never read the wealth of nations its pretty awesome stuff but, its NOT light reading and is in ye olde English as it was written in the 1776 :-D~http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/adam-smith/wealth-nations.pdf

There are some steps you can take as a renter to decrease energy consumption such as heavy drapes, plastic seal kits you can use on windows, weather stripping.

She will in no way be responsible for it.So the moral is dont try to hide things to 'get more than your share' or the like, and this probably only makes sense when both parties are getting along.Hope that helps someone out there.Dan Dietz

Moral of the story is that nothing beats finding (sometimes stumbling or sleeping on) a motivated seller.I suggest telling EVERYONE what you are trying to do.

Moral of the story, I don't agree with your inference.