I gave away my secret sauce to 7 individuals this past week at Johnson's meet-up.  

GRM (Gross Rent Multiplier) is one of the standard methods of appraisal, but the secret sauce is knowing the expected GRM for that type of property in that area.

There is no magic sauce and no guru secret.

(Sometimes more, sometimes less.)There's no "secret sauce" to what I do, I've just laid it all out here right on the prior post. 

I would like to "add some special sauce" that maybe you folks HADN'T Thought of!!

I want to thank everyone  for the soft nudges, tomatoes and paint balls.

I think this may be a case of tomatoes and orange cake.  

The management is the secret sauce behind every asset, a good and happy tenant is a good and long term tenant.

awesome sauce. 

Those are great ideas. we always give the tenant a welcome basket when they first lease the home, Toilet paper, water bottles, spaghetti sauce, sometimes a plunger... just stuff they may need or can use when first moving into the property.. they LOVE these items.. all things you can buy at the $1 store.We also send them a movie gift card and dinner coupon during the holidays and have a hand written note letting them know the owner asked us to send them this and thanking them for being such great tenants.If you are big enough and have enough homes you can normally go work a deal with a local restaurant to be able to get some discounted price off the coupon value if you buy quite a few of them.