The triggers of a recession are irrelevant because the financial cycles are the product of mass human psychology; a self realizing prophecy based the belief of patterns and that what happened in the past repeats itself.

Doing an annual increase cares for your increase in costs and sets a pattern of expectation for the tenant.  

After how many years of this pattern would you bet on it?

Examine similar sales, rental prices, and neighborhood patterns as a whole.It seems sense that you would want to make an offer to gauge interest before trying to work things out in the middle.

If they have a pattern of that, they can lose their license.

No  one will get rich this way, you have to put in the work and do the time on your own, you are the only one who can control your behavior and work patterns, and the only one who can make your life better with your choices.  

Originally posted by Account Closed: That's the holding pattern I've been in for a while too.

You're probably seeing a pattern lol - Taxes are most people's biggest single expense, so when you're developing your long term investing strategy make sure to focus energy on money moves that defer, eliminate, or don't trigger taxes!

I admit I keep to the B-ish "good blocks" though, so I guess that does fit the pattern..

There are plenty of metrics I've seen people use that determine the most prudent time to sell mathematically based on cap rate, COC, ROI, IRR, etc. but the big x-factor in these calculations is future performance based on both appreciation and rent increases, which haven't been following a predictable linear pattern lately at all.