25 Quotes by Chris Bates

The potential tenants don't have the money to pay more right now.

Newer complexes generally go for higher rents than older ones.

I felt like we swung at a lot of balls and took a lot of strikes. Tonight, he struck out three in the first but after that we made that adjustment, where we swung at the strikes and took the balls, and obviously it made a big difference.

Getting that runner on and having him thrown out, it would've been easy for them to hang their heads. I'm just proud of our guys. It was a tremendous effort. We've done those types of things all year. And our guys seem to execute when they are called upon.

If it's a seesaw, it's a little bit tilted in favor of renters. If the occupancy trend continues, then people aren't going to be putting rents up. Rents would at least stay stable and possibly decline.

We talk all the time about how it takes eight games to win the state, but when you put things in perspective, you're really only guaranteed two more games. If you lose two, you're gonna be done.

We have to wait another quarter to see if it continues.

The fact that everything's increasing reflects the healthier economy.

Though I hate to call it that, you have sort of a boring market in terms of price changes.