If you have a perfect tenant that you really want to retain/reward, keep their rent 5% below market.

There are some good food spots around here.

And yes the higher the barrier to entry, the better the return (reward). 

You do the work and reap the rewards.

If these are even an average sized breed they can eat through a lot of food in a day/week/month.So the first thing is to get yourself financially stable.

I had a renter that rearranged all the furniture, left everything absolutely filthy, grease spilled all over the counters and oven, food spilled on the floors and table, trash left everywhere, etc.

@Stephanie Jacobson it will only encourage and reward slumlords who don’t put a dime into their properties or properties they buy because they charge cheap rent.These properties usually become so untenable that they become vacant and boarded up.

Originally you looked at the investment as a risk vs reward and decided to invest.

Hopefully, 2025 will reward us all who have stayed in the game. 

If an asset is throwing off a certain yield that is not commiserate with it's risk, then investors will then begin paying more for that asset, thus decreasing it's yield....or start paying less for the asset which would increase it's yield, until it was at the proper risk/return rate to produce the yield that is truly reflective of it's risk.The problem is novice real estate investors get the risk/reward correlation backwards.