They were not willing to take a haircut and hold the paper. 

However, you could still have - cashflow on paper, but still break even or potentially have + cashflow on your taxes.

@Daniel K Houck I have 2 kids and a wife and they don’t want to house hack either so I can relate to your post.The BP Money series interviews a bunch of people where Financial Independence is achieved through frugality, REI, and investing.The story is the same there-start young, make sacrifices before kids, rent out your bedroom in your apartment and sleep on a sofa and grow your own food and use K-cups twice and count each piece of toilet paper etc…and by your mid 30s you are free!

My thoughts:  You need to take your vision and put it down on paper. 

Driving to open houses found in the paper How did you finance this deal?

As the primary market is priced high, when these primary markets expend, they will come to the 2nd/3rdary markets-avoid 1 industry towns.

This is the people business side of things, and holly-cow there is a LOT to this, a lot more than just numbers on a paper can speak to.

If your past flips were profitable and on budget, if you have a solid crew, and if you're buying homes at 65% (+/-) of ARV, you can put the details of your past flips ( on paper (pdf) or in a short, professional looking video and be prepared to send the pdf or video link to potential private money lenders who you are intentionally seeking out.

Any actual/paper losses with your rentals will be carried over year after year as PAL. 

If this tenant was told (on paper or verbally) that they would be the only tenant using the laundry, then you have to honor that.