I had to look up what "variance analysis" meant.If I understand the question correctly, you're asking "What went wrong to not hit our 20% target?"

I ended up having to hire an attorney, file for a writ of assistance, and have the sheriff serve the writ by showing up and physically removing the occupants.

There's other items such as this where it may be helpful to talk to a CPA/EA for a little tax planning, especially since you'll likely get caught up in the passive activity loss limitations if taking bonus on a single rental property as I often see.It's also useful to mention that even if you do the cost seg study (I'm assuming you're doing one to be talking about this), you'll still benefit from accelerated depreciation in the form of shorter useful lives on the assets where you received bonus from.

You might have other options to explore to drum up liquidity (HELOC, Margin Loan, Policy Loan, etc) that can supplement your HYSA in the DP.

I'm a new real estate investor and I recently picked up Brandon's book "Rental Property Investing"..

But, yes, it sounds like simply looking at your numbers and determining whether or not you can absorb a salary is the time to consider it. 

Look them up online, call and interview several of them.

Or I could suck it up and create a brand new website on WordPress for $1000 and then not have to pay more than $10 a month for the web hosting. 

I’ve seen so many investors hesitate because they wanted the whole deal to themselves, only to end up with nothing because they didn’t compromise.🚀 Lesson: A piece of the pie is still better than staring at an empty plate.2.

My tenants are responsible for maintaining a clean property and for any requested pest control services.