Its no surprise that also took them a week to go and turn it off.I had 2 perspective tenants waiting for over a month with their national background check only to find out there were alternatives we could use to get a report in minutes but they refused to not use that company.Finally I get a tenant after 3 months on the market who is someone who was fully approved by the rent amount was 200 dollars less than market value a month so I agreed because it was just before winter when its harder to get someone in.

Keep in mind if there are economic shifts that you are seeing, so is everyone else, so you may have missed the boat.   

The world of real estate tends to be pretty medieval from a technology perspective.

But from a moral & ethical perspective, you may want to decide at some point to just eat it and accept write it off as cost of doing business.

Not realizing I was only getting a few hundred a month from it and from a cash-on-cash perspective I'd have been better off buying TBills with the click of a button instead of all the hard work, stress, time, and planning I put into it. 

I appreciate your thoughts on this, always nice to have another perspective.

It keeps things professional while giving you room to grow your expertise.I admire your perspective on keeping your parents’ resources separate from your own—it’s smart to want to succeed on your own terms.

I would love to hear different perspectives.  

I'm out West at the moment, but will probably be returning to Tokyo before too much longer.At the risk of being contrarian, after picking up a couple of investment properties in Japan (one Tokyo, one outskirts), I shifted to a strategy of only investing in the US. 

I appreciate your perspective on “appreciating assets” and agree.