@Wei Jie Yang, all the companies mentioned above are "good" as opposed to the many "bad" outfits in Memphis.Now your most important 6 items are really all you need to focus on regardless of where you buy from.Number 1, 2,3,4 and 5 are GOOD MANAGEMENT. 

You can only dictate how long that process takes.I don’t know their outfit, but if you have been on BP for a while you know people aren’t shy to bash a company and it’s tough to find a lot of negative comments about service relative to their size.

Or there is the public storage outfit that is only operating at 60% occupancy. 

In fact, that is the very reason you suggested the HML outfit you did last week -- they have a "senior note" tranch that seems very insulated from damage.

I am the pop of a mom and pop landlording outfit with multiple holdings in single-family-rental properties in this class in a similar city. 

@Laura VerderberI am aggressive in business and highly masculine in thinking.

New shoes, ..to match the new outfit...?

One of my employees said his girlfriend's restaurant just  bought a larger building and borrowed money to outfit a brand new kitchen.   

Easier to take 4k to 40k off of someone and talk about great deals of yesterday then find deals today to buy.I honestly do not know how some of these outfits sleep at night.

I've been waiting 50 years to meet another Merritt and most of them that are out there are girls, not guys (Merritt is actually the masculine, Mera is the feminine, it's Irish or Welsh).So, on the subject of image.