I helped a client sell an attached three-family property with no parking on Mozart Street a couple of years ago for a price which, at the time, I thought was crazy but the prices have continued to escalate since then.

This will help your DTI tremendously.

If so, then what about an escalation clause to beat the other offer by $1,000 or $2,000 up to a chosen max.

I have read many threads on here about people wanting to start property management companies and I always enjoy reading posts about investors who started their own PM companies from the ground up and had tremendous success or who had a hard time.

This forum, community, podcast, has been tremendous

It is tremendously sad that they are in this situation but unless you are willing to adopt them for the rest of their lives you cannot make yourself responsible.

A lot of the offers that are going through have escalation clauses in them and they are waiving the inspection.

I'm seeing a tremendous amount of large commercial and residential properties being listed (and frequently sold) for insane prices ($20M - $200M) throughout the country.

I would be hesitant to put one in though unless the tenants have brought it up with you, or you truly believe it will add tremendous value to your property.

Over the past 10 years those three Western states have seen tremendous appreciation so make sure you can weather a downturn in values.