Finish bathroom rehab for holiday guests in my home.  4. 

Feel free to contact me.Happy holidays!

The Holiday Inn is less than a mile from my house.

So, that $60K person is living in a house with a $1,500 house payment, $200-$300 in utilities, a $100+ cell phone bill, $200 in food at home, but another $200-300 eating out, a $500 car payment, Full package Directv at $180 per month, drinking starbucks coffee at $5 a cup that they pick up on the way to work....and the list goes on.Not any one of the items listed seem unreasonable, but combined with the salary to support that kind of lifestyle is excessive for that person, making them live outside of their means.I was at my annual holiday lunch with one of my attorneys.. and we got on the coffee habit... not to mention smoking habit at 7 to 10 bucks a day.. but in Portlandia were coffee is a thing.. she said many of her staff ride down the elevator buy the fancy 5 buck coffee and do it 2 to 3 times a day 5 days a week.. that's a 200 to 300  a month coffee habit right there.. smokers 300 a month  drinkers etc etc..  

I do think the price is already competitive because there are other units in the same neighborhood around that price.I am questioning if the application fee is creating too much of a barrier to entry.During November and December I chalked it up to the holidays making it hard to rent.

I think we're limited to $25 for tax purposes, which we spend on a small holiday gift each year. https://99deductions.com/d/business-gift-tax-deduction#landlord

But yes, I'll definitely be giving him a ring after the holiday weekend to find out more.Thanks!

Interest rates go up a point, depressing purchase pricesColorado figures out the construction defects challenges, and either condos are built again, or those apartment are converted to condos, flooding the market with supply, and depressing prices.China, in a trade war with the US, goes beyond the new, light capital controls and implements something with real teeth:  Let's say they give their citizens a 'tax holiday' for a year or two if their citizens sell their real estate held else where and repatriate the funds.  

I can relax now!

Happy holidays to all!