It’s paid off, I would “like” to leave it that way & maximize the cash flow while paying down the heloc between the rental & other income.  

If you don't have the money, then borrow the money from someone who you will pay them for use of their capital. 

In fact I can have half of the rooms occupied and still pay the mortgage. 

Somebody somewhere had to pay for that real estate at some point and has continued to pay for it since.

They gloss over the actual REI experience only to have people pay $10k for it when you could have simply put it into a property and learned on your own to gain experience.

I use all the rental cash flow to pay these loans off asap, then repeat.

If I identified the offender, I would probably bill them back for the wasted water and when they didn't pay evict them, or non-renew them if their lease was near the end because that is simpler. 

My experience in Massachusetts, where it took nearly a year to evict a non-paying tenant, has made me more selective about the locations I invest in.I am looking forward to learning and sharing insights with this community! 

I've never been to a pay laundry that didn't take twice as much drying as washing but not 10 times.   

Simply agree to pay too much and get it under contract and then call around and waste everybody’s time trying to unload it to end Buyer.