This will ensure the investment remains viable during tough times.As an investor, the decision to go for a smaller down payment and manage a negative cash flow hinges on my (your) ability to handle the financial strain and my (your) confidence in the property's appreciation and cash flow potential.

And again thanks for your input, some people ridicule without educating so at the very least I am able to learn from this sting and move forward in confidence. 

However, Iḿ confident this would not be a topic or REI concern if it were not repeated 4 million times, 23 and a half hours a day on Fox/WMAL.

When I started investing I knew the market and how to work numbers; I knew my multiple exit strategies and already had a great team in place and was confident in my decisions, all from my career.

I read it recently and gleaned some systems that gave me more confidence in my management (and how I could have handled that transition even better).

A Quality manager should have thousands of reviews on the marketing channels in which a guest can look at and be confident they're getting a good product for what their paying.

Granted, the owner was a total slumlord and refused to repair anything, but I'm confident that a large part of the issue with the bugs was caused by the tenants themselves. 

Also, did your market have enough comps for you and your agent to feel 100% confident with your ARV?

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