I just don't like to lose leverage.    

If you go with a 3rd party...start slowly with what you can afford to lose.   

I 'found' more hours in losing out on some sleep and putting in some long nights until 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning on BP, reading, deal analysis, or anything else I could devour.

Hi Pierre,If you come in and tell them the rents going up by $200 you will probably lose them. 

Someone with a good reputation and would have more to lose if you started bad mouthing them for lying and cheating.

She has a maintenance agreement with a tenant that is getting extremely reduced rent to keep her income low and keep her from losing the property to the state.

You are being kind to someone you know and losing out on $800 / month income, give yourself some ice cream with sprinkles you deserve it.

And its far better to lose 20 to 50k then to buy a project that wont work for any number of reasons but you wont know it does not work until yo spend the money. 

The only issue is, if the neighbor knows that your mom likes have a fence between the yards, the neighbor could say, "Move it or lose it."

It is still below the bank assessment but $184,100 increase seems a bit excessive considering is not a major city and no improvements had been done, any body familiar with assessments and stuff like this?