If you skip over the small stuff at every turnover, you are just milking the cash cow. 

Money Mustache concepts and then the higher level classes introduce reasons why debt can be good.

They "milk" everything they can out of these things, sometimes neglecting cap ex, repairs borderline code enforcement issues etc. 

Don’t throw out the milk just because the milkman is scheduled to bring more tomorrow.

That being said, I can add a touch of cream or whole milk and the taste is spot on.I promise that I get no coffee kick backs - just straight caffeine :). 

I didn't even want to dig deeper because the stated ROI was too low and the expected rent was too low comparing with the price.I felt that they are trying to milk the "California Buyers" because there are not so many good deals here.

Not to be flip, but did you also offer them a warm glass of milk and a cookie?  

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Simply sounds like to me the sellers know how to work the system.If you had to move today for a short sale you received no benefit for and then clean the place and then move somewhere else and pay deposits and first months rent it's doubtful the seller has this money.So they have most likely told their agent if we get money to move we will do the short sale but NO if not.Other times the sellers have no intention of selling but list the property to appease the lender to give them more months of free rent not paying the mortgage and then accept and offer to get the lender to give them even more time on top of that to close it.The seller then creates roadblocks to stall the sale.From their perspective they can milk it through foreclosure and wait even a few more months for eviction and get cash for keys.So if they get 3 months more free rent at 1,500 a pop and 5k cash for keys that is almost a 10k benefit for them by NOT doing a short sale.I haven't worked in the residential short sale side for over 3 years.How investors use to handle this and I don't know if they still do it today but they would buy some of the sellers junk for inflated prices with a personal property bill of sale.This got the sellers some cash out of the deal to move.This wasn't illegal years ago but processes and rules have been added since then so don't know if it can be used today.

back then my mother used to have to get the powder milk and the government cheese.