Provide them contact information and let them know to contact you should the price ever decrease. 

They will more than pay for themselves & probably increase your over all profit while drastically decreasing your stress level. 

Slaying or neutering shows that the owners are responsible and it decreases the chances of the pet marking their territory with urine.

I have no plans at the moment to make any changes to this portfolio, but five years is a long time and although my plan at this moment is to take this loan to term that may change and I don't want to be charged an arm and a leg to get out of this loan should there be a need; especially if I expect rates to be decreasing over the next few years.

The trade-off of course is the greater time you have to invest in the asset and the risk that the property value decreases if there's a market correction or that you mismanage or over-buy the property and end up losing money every month.  

I would say higher interest rates will decrease property values, but it likely won't be in line.

@Jay HinrichsThat is an extreme turn around on decrease of building permits during the recession.

Educating myself has significantly decreased the anxiety/fear/and potential risk that I initially had!

I ask because it seems like you have the funds for it and it would decrease the risk (assuming a market crash in the near future) and increase your cash flow, albeit decreasing your short-term purchase power. 

The cash flow decreases from my property I’m refinancing, however it’s replaced by the three properties I’m buying with that money .