With the situation you're going through, your first thought was likely "I'll raise the rents to cover this." 

Since you only have 2 full time and two part time staff, who covers their vacations and sick time?   

Take the toilet out without damaging it, put a sanitary cover over waste hole, put toilet on shower floor.

At this point, instead of continuing to pay the interest loan payments on properties that we will never be able to financially finish since the rehab loans will not cover the actual cost of the rehab, I wanted to know the ramifications of returning the properties to the loan servicer, deed in lieu.

My business partner provided the upfront cash for the down payment, and we used hard money to cover the remainder and the rehab costs.

Cancer/heart need to fly home.Over the course of this post will cover the following Real Estate angles. 

An owner would be foolish to cover all utilities for an S8 tenant.

I think #2 covers 90% of the work, BUT there are people whose debts are out of line with their income.

i am not looking to be spending my days on the lake, I am looking to replace my day job income, and growing my portfolio.... but it is important to cover my costs first, which not 20k/mo but, that is what i'm accustomed to regularly (or more). 

If their policy ever lapses or is canceled, they are automatically enrolled in my master policy and covered.