It cost about $2,500 to replace and ate about 6 months of cash flow. 

Feel free to add in if you know any red flag worksHowever my question is : why when they mention we ate good christian folks means trouble tenant?

Even if we ate Ramen we could still have a roof.

Sure it ate a few bucks into my profit, but let me tell you, when you have Fat Pocket guys like I do, losing even one of them would hurt way more. 

Hind sight is 20/20 I ended up getting much more than my price but the holding costs ate up the extra so I got my price and lost the time value of the money.TVM.....TVM.....TVMThat is my new chant or mantra.

The 1/2 bath going in the basement was no exception to the compromise I mentioned; it cost more for a macerating toilet, ate up valuable finished basement space and doesn't make quite as much sense as a 1/2 bath on the first floor for company.Even the labor is a compromise.

Over the course of a year my wife and I fixed it up, rented to friends, ate peanut butter and jelly, did everything we could.

I love how specific your goals ate.

Don't think I ate until dinner, and was up at 6:30 ready to call the mortgage company. 

I worked long hours (60-70 hours a week), I gave up a lot of things (cable television, expensive cell phones, satellite radio, my gym membership), I didn't go out on the weekends (I worked), and I rarely ate at restaurants.