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100 miles a day = 500 miles a week. Assuming you work 80 weeks in two years that will be 40000 miles you will put on ( i will bet with your commute it will be closer to 50k miles). Both cars will be close to 80k miles when you decide to trade it in.
I would suggest you go for something with more miles, something close to 80k miles. You may be able to get such a vehicle for 6-8k and it will depreciate even less when you trade it in.
Or you may want to go for the Hondas which will hold their value more than the Nissans.
Looking at current values online , the 2012 has a "trade in" value of about $1K higher than the 2010. Not sure how that would hold up a year or two from now at 24K miles a year but you could play with the numbers. FWIW, I don't believe the "don't buy a rental" either. My parents bought 4 former rentals, and my last two used vehicles were previously rentals. None of them had any major problems and neither of mine have had any problems not covered by the original B2B warranty - and those were cosmetic plastic pieces.
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