Not handouts, but intelligent, collaborative deals that empower them to move forward in life-creating a scholarship fund to help kids get to college-funding a local civic center, cancer research institute, Walk for Hunger, or whatever tickles your fancy-tithing to your churchLife has been good to me, too, and I certainly spent a lot of time pursuing skydiving and such.

My new methodology for empowering and personalizing for tenants is that before they move in and prior painting the property is on the agenda, I will test all the colors on several walls and let the tenant make the decision.

If you can empower them with information and access to capital, you can save yourself that headache potentially which is the goal for most of us.As for the UAA... sounds like I need to start going to some meetings, I'm missing out on all the fun!

All I am trying to say is that in the world there are no guaranties, so use this unfortunate experience to gain knowledge and empower yourselves so that you learn what not to do next time.

Buyers are much more empowered now, but the agents are still here.Using a buyers agent is a great deal for your typical buyer. 

It's not a quick fix, but it was nice to discover that I could empower my business with its own business credit! 

Your association dues as an agent may come with a lot of tools, data, and resources to empower you to be a better investor.

You are free to tell them at any point, for no particular reason to pound sand and withdraw your funds/time/commitment.Working this hard to "prove them wrong" when you don't have to actually empowers his position, belittles your position, and is a waste of time and energy in my opinion.

-The value of the property is roughly $30k more than the sale price, which would empower me to secure an equity loan, and I could pay the private loan (gift) off after that six months.

Did I also mention that most HOAs are empowered to require "special assessment fees" for common expenses that you probably havent accounted for in your proforma?