The fact that you let the rent go so far behind just shows how compassionate you are as a family member, and you are right, that 'soft spot,' does fall under one of the infinite reasons why not to do business with family.

The church is usually a soft touch for sob stories.

It's much harder to enforce rules after you've been soft.

They tend to go in soft, lose potential money on rent and generally allow the tenants to control them because the tenants were in place.

I never want to have the reputation of being a soft touch for having paid bribes.

Again just not a good business practice to get into in my opinion Sending a courtesy notice is ALWAYS good business.walk softly and carry a big stick

Perhaps these units just need "soft turns" on turnover - carpet, paint, fixtures.

The best use for the deal analysis forum IMO is to get others with more experience to chime in on the "soft" estimates, to tell you if you're in the right ballpark, or way offGood luck with the close!

Appraisers can be touchy about someone pushing them too hard, so you will want to tread softly.

Not suggesting this from a “soft stance” point of view—but these professionals are probably more used to dealing with this kind of dysfunction and might have more tools up to and including the possibility of involuntary commitment