Ideally, you can use the services of a broker to get you a soft quote.

I'm part of his free Facebook group and also I watch his Youtube videos to brush up my real estate skills.

The market is very soft, there are 8 empty rentals on my street right now.

I could see the damage this was beginning to cause, so we discussed it with the tenants, and agreed on a solution, which was they did not have to take it down, we scheduled a day to return, and wrapped/attached a single piece of thick soft plastic around the rack so that splashed water just runs back into the sink.

Personally, I like to use the "Binder" strategy for negotiating higher rents with tenants, it's more of a soft handed approach.

Not good for the economy but if you are a politician there is nothing easier than taxing people you don't like so you can give money to people you do like.The other thing that hit my radar this week is talk of the Fed engineering a "Soft Landing".  

Most major carriers have lost money over the past few years due to a soft market, huge cat losses and below average investment income.

If normal demand is 100 customers for the 100 properties, but because of a soft economy you now have 90 customers, now you have 100 properties chasing those 90 customers. 

Being that we are both self-employed and with our income status, I know that banks would brush us off.

It makes you look weak/soft/afraid/responsive to this sort of demand.