Unless your rates are inflated and have room to come down to attract long term tenants I would NEVER negotiate rents.

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Additionally, the Pope was just in Philadelphia and rates are highly inflated.

Aside from the equity position and maybe looking at the credit report, I'm not sure how to do the due diligence to determine if the first is going to do a loan mod or whatever it needs to do to rise above the foreclosure. 

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With shopping I can get .7%... oh man.At a 2% inflation rate.... still a guaranteed loss.

The other one is performance at the time of exercising the option (ignoring inflation to make them comparable). 

Rents are modest for the area and would probably rise over time.

If yes AND you think interest rates will rise substantially, it may make sense to target payments toward that loan.My $0.02