Note:  from a "buy" standpoint, unless you are all cash/heavy down payment, today's interest rates for investors in the 6%+ range don't cut it. 

Given the uncertain neighborhood prospects, I'm torn between enduring potential long-term losses or cutting them now.

Not everyone is cut out for sales.. there are skills in sales that folks just dont understand..

Here's another - the city literally hired a team of 7 people who do nothing but drive around looking for long grass to mow and then bill the homeowner (usually an investor) $270ish for a single grass cut. 

Cut their commission in half, or even 1/3, and the majority of them will leave the profession.

😁Also, that’s the city of Atlanta regulations… I guess since the metro is various counties and other cities, etc. my work is cut out for me as far as researching the best places to do this

You'll have to replace all of that too....And the Case molding will have to be saw cut as well.It'll be easier to just replace which is what they're technically requesting anyway...

Then they start trusting me lol.The ones asking you to reduce your commission and low ball, cut them and move on.

They never cut the grass. 

I don't know about you, but in 30 years I'd rather be sitting on a million-dollar asset that I own free and clear (because someone else paid it off for me) that is generating multiple, multiple times the rent I was collecting when I first acquired it and in which I can fill a vacancy with a qualified tenant within two weeks because the area is so desirable that it can't keep up with housing demand than on some boondocks asset that I only purchased because it was the cheapest thing around and "cash flowed" $200 per month on paper but barely appreciated over the years and whose rent appreciation has marginally kept up with inflation and takes me three months to fill a vacancy with a "qualified" tenant who even then might get behind on rent because his hours were cut at the gas station 30 miles away (true story; my tenant worked at a gas station in Boron--only job he could find).Personally, I'm keeping my 4-unit in Santa Clarita and investing in development deals and notes until an incredible off-market deal lands in my lap (keep dreaming, Logan) or the SoCal market cools.