I was driving around yesterday in Hayward and got lost, and ended up at a "Grupe" new homes...Really nice SFH but without backyard, being selling since 10/16, only 3 out of 14 units are sold...

Put your big girl pants on Basically what have you already lost in rents for average of lets say 6 years. lets take $70.00 a month for 72 months that's $5040. x 2= $10080.00Raise the rent to just under market,, forget the % amount you either run a business or a charity. 

Yes, I reward tenants with a rent increase to the new, higher market rents each and every year ... haven't lost a single tenant yet or had a good tenant turn bad as a result.

I've lost money on deals a few times, and no matter what my lenders get paid back every penny.  

They lost that privilege when they bounced one.If there's cheaper housing in your area suggest they'd have an easier time if they moved and don't fine them for moving out early.

I lost 4 of my properties when the market tanked in 06.

I've lost 60k on a real estate deal that had a 'mentor'....

Don't put it into the market, I made that mistake a few years ago and lost $10,000. 

(loosely related)I just "lost out" on a deal.  

It was about a $70,000 rehab on a house that she had just rehabbed 2 years prior.On top of that, she had 4 months of lost rent while she tried to evict him and a $3,000 attorney bill.And people wonder why I laugh when they ask me if I'm 420 friendly.Um.