I'll admit it's for emotional reasons and my one thing about landlording I get emotionally invovled in but I know I will "get over it" in time.

Charge $25 or $35 and have a nice lunch on the difference!

The only thing I can suggest is to go and have a sit down with a couple of different management companies that specialize in managing vacation rentals and gather some information from them.There are a lot of vacation rentals in my area, but oddly, even though I know a lot of people active in several different areas of real estate, I don't know anyone who has vacation rentals (except for one friend with a B&B, and that's not really the same thing).The only thing I know about vacation rentals is that they are extemely management intensive and the management companies charge a substantial fee.You have turn over every week, and someone has to be there to clean, repair, asses damage, and inventory all the household items.

She told me that I might as well charge the full $850 as she pays nothing towards the rent anyways.

I think you would have a better chance of purchasing below market if you concentrated on regular sellers since there is some desperation or emotion involved.

Then you should have a good idea of what your LL will be charging you to replace it.

I'd take him in a heartbeat.Yet, if you charge different prices for rent, how are you going to justify that, unless you have a sliding scale bases on the credit score?

The rate is about 1% higher than a normal FHA loan and there are some additional charges because of the repair reserves and reinspection and draw services on the loan.

I charged my buyer an additonal $5000 just to give them the exclusive opportunity to buy it from our pool of investors and she happily agreed to that.The point is, this is the best deal I have found lately, and only 3 other offers were submitted so obivously there aren't a whole lot of realtors who know what I know.

Well when you start borrowing in that purchase range (I don't think) you'll run into the Fanny/Freddy rules because you're not dealing with "conforming" loans.I started doing cash purchases due to the high (onerous IMO) charges associated with borrowing on lower end properties.