I believe a good tenant is very valuable, but not to the point of keeping their rent level for years.

Thank you all for your valuable opinions!

The bottom line is you need to make yourself too valuable to them to burn you.

This month happens to be their 10th anniversary, so it will be even more valuable than usual.

This set of forums has been incredibly, incredibly valuable for us to get started in real estate investing.

Great point, James.That said, I wish someone (or some people) would help us to perhaps compile some guides within specific topics.A) It would be very helpful, and could become a stickeyB) The person/people who did it would get tons of love from me and the rest of the community, as well as some credibliity.C) See BD) I think these would be incredibly valuable and could drive many new members and potential partners to the site.Think what Steve Babiak does, but on a larger scale and broken down in a meaningful way (not that Steve doesn't do it in a meaningful way)Thoughts?

Several of our neighborhoods are selling at or near pre-2000 prices.I have a degree in finance from UNLV, and love slicing and dicing the numbers in Excel to find valuable statistics and trends.

Of course if you are engaging in a 1031 exchange then you'd like to realize as much capital as possible.From a seller's viewpoint I could see this being a valuable sale.

Anyhow, I hope to gain valuable knowledge from this community and meet like minded people as yourself.

As you guys may or may not have read, zillow.com acquired postlets.com.

I love the postlets.com model - a self-sustaining website that generates income.

I hate the zillow.com site - a information site that provides ...