You don't ask for a discount at Starbucks when there is not enough room for so much cream, syrup, and sugar, you sip it black or otherwise make it work.Fixing things as needed is sign of a good landlord, not a reason to reduce the rent!

Be very careful when doing a deal with blood relatives.

Institutional investors need to put that somewhere, thus they will continue to buy as long as there's any blood to squeeze out of the turnip.

Come to think of it, since you were paying their mortgage for them, I guess that made you their "sugar daddy" (I was actually thinking of a different candy...on a stick).5 - Owner loses property due to delinquent mortgage payments.6 - You're out $14,400 plus legal (if you actually try to think you can change this result legally).Hope is not a plan, and emotions have no place in REI as a basis for a solution. 

Remember you can't get blood from a stone.

It sounds from your description that a little sugar may work better than a stick in this case.  

Buy them Dinner at a very nice steak house.You need to invest your time, money, blood, and energy in selling in one of the hottest markets in the united states for several years.

@Robert Haney Are all of your properties (flips & holds) in Sugar Land?

Nightmare is probably the best description, and even after the blood sweat tears (and absurd cash we dumped into it), we broke even or lost money for years before finally admitting it was a massive mistake and ditching it to break even a couple years ago.All that said... we learned a TON, and we proved to ourselves that if we could make it through that we can make it through anything! 

After running the numbers multiple times and not trying to sugar coat them at market rent, units B-D would cover my PITI, but I would basically be on the hook for everything else which includes future pest removal, the 230 avg water bill, 80 avg trash pickup.This is my first home/house hack and I'm eager to jump into the business to get experience but dont want to set myself up for massive regret.