Different real estate investors use a combination of different strategies.

Lease w/ the right to sub-lease and a seperate option contract or can they be combined in to one doc.

But we are discussing combining cyberspace with a wholesale agreement here.

I don't know your financial situation, but let me tell you, having significant assets and a bad attorney is a BAD combination...

That's not a lot to go on but my guess would be: one gas meter supplies the boiler so the property owner can pay for the combined heat.

Having been on both sides of billion-dollar M&A deals, my experience is that when a company like Google makes a major purchase, the decision on whether to use cash or stock (or a combination of the two) generally has very little to do with macro-economics and more to do with the financial position of the company, the specific incentives the company wants to provide to the company they are acquiring, and the goals of the investment.Having too much cash on-hand can be a major liability to a company; while there are a number of reasons for this, by far the biggest is that it sends a message to wall street and to shareholders that the company doesn't have a viable investment outlet for the cash, and therefore doesn't have a solid and cohesive growth plan.Microsoft epitomized this back in 2004 when they were sitting on $60B in cash and ended up issuing a huge one-time dividend ($3 per share @ 10B shares) to dispense of half of that cash.Long-story-short, don't read too much into the fact that a company with a lot of cash chooses to spend it on M&A, versus issuing stock (borrowing money is rarely an option for companies with a large cash position).

But when it is combined with many others -- punched in bedroom door, molds/mildews in bathrooms, greasy oven, broken/missing shelves in refrigerator, broken blinds, ..., some of you may just wonder why you have to live there at all.

You are right that it is hard to compete against that combination.

A spoonful would be too much.However, elimination & sanitation of food sources in combination with this form of baiting would be an ideal roach control solution.

My plan is to combine this with some of the other things i've learned here on BP (Flickr and youtube through craigslist) to try to reduce the time it takes to fill and get a better group of tenants to choose from.