Welcome to BP and congrats on the salary improvement!

Propery is 400k and improvements 100k to 150k.

Simply meaning, less inventory in Cobb County, therefore, you can continue to expect your properties to significantly appreciate.

That is going to continue to put a restriction on inventories into the marketplace.

You’ll want to make them feel like they’re going to be in a stable housing situation for the long term.Asking them if anything is wrong with the property and making some slight improvements is a great way to justify the increase.

The other great thing is that capital improvements, especially to common space is spread out between all the units.

that they'll give you the final step-up after improving and holding for 10 years.  

Inventory is incredibly limited and when it comes up it's overpriced and is often in a multiple-offer situation.

I really think we, as landlords, have a long way to go to improve our image….. to that end I find  stunts like the above to be detrimental to the long term legal health of being a LL.

Then ask what improvements you’ve made.