Roof rats often come from fruit trees (food source) nearby that they then crawl to the roof line and enter the house from vents and open areas around the roofline and/or foundation line.They are are a pain for Tenants as they scream and howl at all hours, especially at night. 

As noted your children will be happy to sell the fruits of your life time of labour.2) Based on the opportunity value of cash a property that can not produce positive cash flow with a hypothetical 100% financing scenario will likely never produce true positive cash flow.

And the only reason I’m advocating for letting it go is because the juice isn’t worth the squeeze.

Needless to say I've had a rather fruitful 2017 and I will continue to invest in real estate! 

May not be the case in your area but pride of ownership and back end repairs have been cheaper in my experience.You can make some money here, it is definitely the low hanging fruit in real estate. 

In other words "Is the juice worth the squeeze?"

Hi Blake,I am currently having a tough time finding cap rates at 5.5% right now so I would imagine that your focus in the middle of the US is going to be much more fruitful based on pure cash-flow. 

Considering we'd be paying cash (and thus there'd be no interest coming off the NOI like with option 1), my cash flow comes out the same as it does when I take out 80% on the LOC in option 1.Which of these scenarios do you think sounds more fruitful?

This weekend was somewhat fruitful.

Seems like there’s not enough juice to squeeze out of this one :/ It depends on your goals, if you intend to continue acquiring properties and renting them out, etc then once you have more the low cash flow on this one won’t seem as bad when you have others that are cash flowing really well (if you accomplish that).If this is going to be your one and only or if there is a a major repair (roof, water heater, A/C etc) it could set you back and make a good positive cash flow take even longer to achieve.