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.

While I have never lived in properties such as this, my parents rented and I wouldn't exactly say I ate from a silver spoon.

@Angel Acosta that is a lot of profit ate up just on getting the loan, me personally I would look for other options possibly finding a private money lenders.

Several items were not finished including a missing gutter, unfinished trim, and completely covered a bathroom vent (the duct now vents into my attic).quite a few columns of nails completely miss the joist (I was able to see this after opening up the interior)I ate the cost of two additional dumpsters because he didn't know what size he needed.I'm not going to eat any additional cost due to his shoddy business operation.

While we are done carrying the property for a long time and taking a huge discount due to low ball appraisal ate a hefty chunk of profits.

The don't write about the flip that cost $100k and then ate up another $50k in repairs and was worth $120k when they finished.

Oh, the dog must have ate it."

If House B ate at Ruth Chris every night instead of Applebee's, they may be worse off; otherwise, their incremental expense was less than the added income from another worker. 

Basically this ate up my monthly cash flow and I decided to sell the building.