Healthier homes are becoming more in demand and do have a higher value because they are better quality and last longer.

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That sucked, and I wouldn't recommend it, but if you can learn to embrace that 'finisher' inside of you, you can learn to do a lot of things. 

People always say apartment investing is a team sport, but I didn’t fully embrace that right away.

There is winter, and it can really suck for 6-8 weeks, but they embrace that making features for winter like ice-castles, winter sports, ice-bars, etc..

I live in Wakefield, RI and work for Embrace Home Loans, a National Direct Lender in Newport, RI. 

Either get your agent to embrace your offer type or dump him.

If you want to convince of RETURNS, show us something speaking of the next 3-7yrs, something of tenancy base, median incomes going up, stronger healthier tenancy with stable cost of operations. 

Substitute the bad snacks with healthier snacks.

The market would bear the cost assuming all investors passed the cost along to tenants unfortunately there are far too many hobby landlords that are killing our business.If we could get rid of the majority of small landlords that do not operate as a business our industry would be 10X healthier.