Docteur, how can I negotiate the discount? When we rented while building our house, I offered to pay my landlord for one year of rent in advance, about $30K, for a discount which we would determine together (at that time, CDs were paying less than 3%). She said she wasn’t interested. Is there another way to do this, that the landlord would want? I’m also asking him to install A/C. I can’t believe I missed that one…I thought everyone had it! So he’ll raise my rent by some mutually agreed amount, depending on the estimate for the A/C. I figure if I pay him half the cost of the A/C over the 4 years I’m here, it’s a fair deal for both of us. He pays half for his A/C, but gets the increased value for his house. And I won’t have to move (no way will I live on Poway without A/C).