the banks know the truth that climate change is a big hoax to siphon money and redistribute it to other elitists and other countries and Fortunately millions of people have their head screwed on correctly and didn’t fall for the global warming / climate change fear tactics .im actually surprised that folks still believe in this junk science but let’s face it ,some folks will eat cat $&t if you spoon feed it to them !

The further away from the city the less you pay in price and tax but tax is still high and can easily eat your profits. 

What I didn't think about was whether it added dollars to my rental rate and in retrospect found that it was mainly just eating up my investment reserves. 

Wouldn't you end up paying more in interest payments down the line that would eat up cash flow, equity, and appreciation?

In the old days we would call long-term employment or a fat savings account a “compensating factor“.

Those numbers you showed look very good for the contractor, but will severely eat into your profit, and perhaps cause you to not make any profit at all.

Also, the taxes on the house have increased and will be $5900, which would really eat into my cash flow unless I can protest at next opportunity.

Although there is still some significant fat left in the deal, and we underwrote for a 1 year timeline, there have been many hiccups along the way.

and I had already assumed I was going to eat the several hundred $ of the water bill he never paid. 

A couple of them have HOA listed as a cost, and that's eating a lot into your margins.