His neighbor decided that he doesn't want my friend's sewer line running under his yard, so the neighbor dug up the sewer lateral, cut and capped the sewer near the property line.

At some point 8-10 years did a portfolio loan with good tax returns and ended up using a lot of cash and that loan to buy 2 strs in Myrtle- ocean lakes. we currently have 20 units and Two are str's.theres really no short cut, we built a ton of equity by buying at the right time and fixing up ourselves (I'm a contractor).wr bought the two strs in 2020 and 2022.

All things that cost thousands to replace/install.Mistake #4- Cutting corners.

At least you have a cut off point in 3 years lol.  

RE income is about $35k in a normal year, which is nice, but I'm one busted furnace was from that number essentially being cut in half.

It's not as cut and dried as some people think. ;-)As @Chris Seveney: says, "keep the house and restructure the debt" I've done that for people too.

Long story short, after doing the math it would take roughly 12.5 years to get our offer amount by renting; yeah we understand homes usually appreciate over time; however in these current times where demand is super high; and all the red tape surrounding landlords; Id say cut sling load and sell.

Hi Tim,Let's cut through the noise here.

A LOT of distrress is leading to mergers and firings, in just the last few weeks, this happened: (Big credit to @NewsLambert)Lower to acquire Universal Lending retail and wholesale operations (11/1/23)Trustar Mortgage acquired by Archer Mortgage, LLC (11/1/23)People’s Bank of Commerce to exit residential mortgage lending (10/27/23)BMO Bank cutting 228 jobs in Northern California (10/25/23)Homestar Financial to wind down operations (10/25/23)City National Bank layoffs in Los Angeles total 71 (10/23/23)Hometown Lenders layoffs (10/12/23)First Savings Bank to lay off 135 mortgage workers (10/4/23)Wesley Mortgage absorbs competitor Colten Mortgage (10/4/23)Cenlar to lay off 85 in Ewing, NJ (10/2/23)Rithm Capital to acquire Computershare Mortgage Services Inc. (10/2/23)Wells Fargo cut 525 jobs in South Carolina (9/28/23)Better Mortgage lays off additional employees (9/22/23)The Graystone Company has acquired Direct Mortgage (9/13/23)Flyhomes to purchase certain assets of Home Sale Assured (9/13/23)Divvy Homes to cut 95 jobs in San Francisco (9/11/23)Farmers-Merchants Bank to sell three branches to focus on core mortgage business (9/11/23)It goes on…..The mortgage industry is in a starkly deep recession.And RIP refinances, unless you are holding an even higher interest rate loan (like a construction/bridge loan or hard money, or perhaps you just fixed your credit.

Alarmist, cut and paste, dont kill the sale types, etc.