and I love seeing the expressions on the faces of people from California when I show them the numbers, it's priceless.

I guess this comes with experience :/" I know what you want to express.

I tried getting in contact with the owner of the prop co, Jeffrey Smith, for over a year to express my concerns.

With that being said, I think that if these are good tenants that you should express empathy but be honest about the rental increase.

Having said that, he runs the other family business and is not hands on with the real estate.Now, my father has expressed willingness to let me offer cash on my first property (whether he buys it and I buy from him or he transfers me the funds and I pay him back, we have not decided the best way around this yet).

I am allowed to express what I feel is go n on in this situation.

Express only concern you are trying to contact for an important matter, and have not been able to reach the tenant.

As you've expressed though, ACH takes a couple days to transfer from the tenant's account to yours.  

- Thanks for the invite to the conversation.We rent to a fair number of foreign students - some by the room, some as apartments.I will re-iterate the sentiment already expressed that we have very little trouble or any sort with our foreign students - we had one who left suddenly and owed us rent.

I finally agreed to give her "first right of refusal" through 10AM the next morning, ie, would call her to book if someone else expressed interest.I woke up the next morning to several voice mails from different people expressing interest, so I called her back to see if she was ready to book now.