I anticipate that my second and third investments will likely be more straightforward, but for the time being, this approach appears to be the most logical, even if it requires a temporary compromise on my part for a year or so.

I personally think this is a reasonable compromise as there will be preexisting WRB present around the sides and bottom of the frame.Jonathan, the siding is brick so I assume that there will be minimal banging on the walls except where the ties are involved.

You are your own bank in this regard aside from slight risk (inevitable) and your property is struggling to get traction so you have to compromise.

Wherever I'd go, I'd always have to go through that part of downtown and was passing by that hostel more often than not but I didn't particularly like to walk through that whole area to go buy my groceries as the Super Chedraui Select but I wouldn't compromise on the walking part.Now I'd been many times to Playa del Carmen before I set foot in Cabo San Lucas for the first time years ago.

I am at a time in my life, after a career change, that I need more cash flow, but would prefer not to compromise the equity built from larger mortgage pay down and greater appreciation on a larger building/more units.  

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I currently have a single family home where I am renting one of the bedrooms (my primary home) and a duplex in a neighboring City (Joliet, Il). I've owned the single family home for 4 years and the du...

I am very in line with you on wanting to focus on better locations even if it compromises the ROI to some degree.

I feel like I will be in the same boat, just scared about finding a compromised/less long-term tenant in a smaller rental market. 

Now the fence will be compromised in order to complete the work.

It would have been cheaper and easier to put it on the first floor and we definitely played with every layout we could think of, there were just none we could come up with that didn't block off the middle of this narrow row home.If there's one thing we've learned thus far, EVERYTHING is a compromise.