If you make all cash offers you should be certain that you can put your money (or financing) where your mouth is.Cheers,John

Bad word of mouth and reviews can destroy any business, so it is in their best interest to offer you something.

While there may be no {short-term} motivation to the landlord to strive for more efficiency, our experience is showing mid to long term gains in lower turnover, higher demand (mostly via word of mouth) and, more recently, the ability to command better rents.... however, we'll save that debate for one of the sustainability and efficiency threads :-)

Move it to a higher appreciating or higher cash flowing property or more than 1 property, then you hold off uncle sam and get into something you are happier with.

Word of mouth recommendations are highly valued.

Low end tenants are definitely hand to mouth.

I brought her a good friends listing who was selling to retire, he couldn't be happier.

work off word of mouth and invest that $500 in your education

That turned into friends, business associates, and then word of mouth.

I started to set up with cozy.co but didn't think my tenants would like the fact that it's auto-pay since many of them live hand to mouth.