The dividends might help you eat without selling shares, but real money is made when the price of Amazon doubles or triples over time.Now I believe a dividend helps support the price of a stock, so I wouldnt ignore it all together. 

Cash flow is the life blood of real estate, and as a wise man once said, "You can't eat equity."

If it is super competitive and you really want the place, then you may need to go ahead and meet them in the middle with an April lease start date and just eat that cost. 

HOwever he takes the deals cradle to grave manily new construction so he is not spending that kind of money to make a wholesaling fee.. its dog eat dog out there for all these beginner wholeslaers.. 

You only eat what you catch; there is no salary. 

I think the OP is trying to have her cake and eat it too.

Getting one of those wrong will eat money fast.

I could do HELOC or cash-out re-fi, but that would eat my cash flow.

It's one of those things that, like the shrunken head said in "Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban" (about the pea soup at The Leaky Caldron), "Make sure you eat it before it eats you".As I understand your post, you're complaining about free advertising which is working for you: steady stream of calls coming in.That said, of course, the poster could have just fat-fingered the number and posted yours instead of someone else's - or did they call out you or your company by name?

Not that I have a crystal ball, but I see a  cycle of more CapEx/maintenance than anticipated for longer than you thought that eats into your cash flow and keeps you from updating the units, which keeps you from maximizing  rents.