That will eat in your profits big time. 

Eat a lot of crow. 

To the point made above,people have to eat, but they also need a place to live. http://www.in2013dollars.com/Rent-of-primary-resid...Per these stats, while rents rise on average they still fall behind the rate of inflation.curiously enough the prices for housing changed faster than the rate of inflation:http://www.in2013dollars.com/Housing/price-inflati...great conversation topic.

Sell it off for a onetime payday at a high tax rate  only to have to do it again to eat again. 

That would eat into your profits.

Would an attorney eat up all my cost savings of not getting title insurance?

Obviously, I can't keep up with their bids since they can eat the extra costs.Anyway, I'm having trouble locking one down.

Negative cash flow will eat you alive. 

I LOVE taking the big guns down, turning around dropping my pink flower panties and moon them and say, eat my dust bishes!!

if you think you are going to return to San Diego in the next 5 years then eating the negative cash flow and hoping some of it is offset by rent and property appreciation may be worth.I suspect your analysis will show that the smart financial decision is to sell the RE.