Trick is to make sure you are compliant and using a knowledge attorney to guide you through every transaction: Disclose Disclose Disclose!

One thing many are forgetting...Not everyone is a one trick pony, their are more asset classes, and more to do in life than real estate. 

@Arthur Thomas - I’m not sure of the specifics of your lot and the market, but sometimes getting a feasibility study done with some conceptual plans and renderings may do the trick in enticing buyers.

The old tricks will get you hammered.

The trick is cash flow. 

That doesn’t always work but if you can get them to agree in writing to terminate the lease and vacate with no further legal or financial penalty, sometimes that does the trick and is much easier process for both parties.

The trick is, asking the right question!

I don't know for certain, but I imagine that refinishing and sealing should do the trick...this is good question for a knowledgeable hardwood contractor...

For example, I acquired a property in Phoenix to fund my purchase of a vacation home up north to escape the heat.I'll buy another property to afford my tricked-out WRX STI in the future, and a third one so I can take a European vacation every year with my family.I agree with your decision, but consider rewarding yourself again once you have more comfortable cash flow and there are more predictable signs of the direction of the economy and REI legeslature. 

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