They bring more stability and less turnover than STRs, but the discounted rates and occasional deep clean can eat into profits.

The contract healthcare providers are always looking for some great MTR options close to work but also close enough to good eats, MARTA etc.  

NYC and the Bronx and Queens and Brooklyn are generally impossible wholesale areas anyway, but if you add in that you are an out-of-town student alleging to buy people's houses, NYers will eat you alive.

Otherwise, it looks like you may have 1031'd into "bad investments" for the tax deferment but are now eating the cash flow as a result. 

To top it off people like this, that are so normalized to their filth don't understand why deep cleaning eats their entire deposit.

Then, you can calculate how much cash this property(ies) is going to eat over the period you plan to hold it and see if what you can sell it for (less commissions, taxes, etc) will produce a profit.

Train with the one thing you have with you all the time FIRST and then go to external weapons if you like.I hear all the time from some 400 pound fat guy they have a gun and go to the range once a week but if they walk more than 20 feet they get out of breath.  

I think they need to eat this and also fix the ventilation system.

This often only works with large properties where you are raising north of $1mm in equity, otherwise the legal fees eat up too much of the overall deal to make it worthwhile for anyone.  

A nice fat margin can get very thin, very quickly if anything goes sideways.