I've never seen one NRU member give of their time to assist others.Almost EVERY one who comes here from NRU has done nothing but abuse our site by sending SPAM messages to other members, seemingly with the intention of recruiting.

Used and abused.

Our authors who have high-quality content have no issue with our article guidelines because they have no intention on abusing the system.

A few suggestions which I think would enhance biggerpockets (some taken from vBulletin), in no particular order:* multi-quote - the ability to select multiple posts for quoting* kudos - ability to register approval of a post, or agreement with a point, and then count these and somehow rate posters - just provides more incentive to share and try to be constructive and helpful * ability to view the forum in wide screen format (maybe you can but I can't see how - the forum text only takes up about 30% of the width of my screen)* more/better emoticons - happy to suggest some if you like ;)* also I'd like emoticons inserted where the cursor is, rather than always at the end of the text (ie if you edit and want to insert an emoticon in an earlier para, you seem to be only able to do it by cutting and pasting the emoticon, which is always inserted at the very end of the whole post)* I imagine this is related to the fact that whenever you format some text, your cursor is moved to the very end of the post; I'd rather the cursor be left where it was just prior to applying formatting (eg bold)* ability to report/hide abusive posts, to try and stop conversations degenerating into slanging matches :roll: Love the forum - thanks, Josh.

Comps and other MLS data is available through a real estate agent; however, you don’t want to abuse the relationship.Solid relationships with a real estate agent will open doors for you that may have been securely closed in the past.

Is your house near a bus or train station?

Well, the owner has had issues with substance abuse.

Does anyone have any lease clauses that prohibit the use of plug in electric heaters and also I'm looking for a clause that puts a cap on the electric bill.I have a unit that is on the same meter as the common areas and furnaces so I have to pay the electric on it but the tenants have been abusing their "free" electric so I want to figure out how to put a cap to this.

Unfortunately these type of government hands outs are abused more often then they are used for good.Time to end the free ride for some people.

I try to not abuse agents because I'm sensitive to wasting their time as well.The more experienced agents seem to offer more disclosures (hot tub leaks for example) and are comfortable with passing on information you need to make an informed decision to buy.Pull comps on your local county database.