The mental wear and tear a lower class investment property can have on your bank account and more importantly your mental fortitude could be the difference between long term success and a one and done experience. 

To add my $0.02, you may want to shift all that amazing efforts on other deals and I promise you, with your fortitude, you will get Mom a better house than this. 

Not surprisingly, looking for Seller Financing [SF] deals takes a certain kind of skill and fortitude I can tell you that first hand.

I am being totally honest when I say that if you do not have a level of competency that allows you to understand the basic concepts of investing or the fortitude of character to stay on the right path and not take shortcuts - then you shouldn't be investing in real estate in the first place.

Hence, I didn't have the fortitude to stay the course.

I don't know if I have the fortitude to drop it that low.

You don't see that discipline, fortitude and vision in very many folks.

At least they have the testicular fortitude to stand up for themselves.

Finally, and most importantly, I did not have enough cash, foresight or fortitude to hold and wait for a better market.

also confused about your logical contortions of charging more rent for pets  but not really because you are possessed of great moral fortitude or some other non sequitur.