If he's acting hopeless, then I'd say drop him and find one who will champion for you.

., it's Monday and you don't have anyone friday-sunday that week) then drop it to 1 night maybe to fill at least one of them.

You didn't spend $50,000 on some real estate course (I hope) and you didn't drop $150,000 into a property with no idea whether it would work or not.Well done.Mike

You increase rents every year rents aren’t dropping.

Not a penny has dropped to me or any investors.

Certainly not by liquidating their retirement accounts that just suffered an historic drop in value.Do you feel that Oregon’s bias against landlords is a temporary fad, or a permanent change that may even worsen over time? 

Dropped out of 10th grade to make money for his family and so the younger ones could make the "payments" to go to high school.

Also, the banks that did approve me told me that they could only use the rental income from the other units (75% of it) for an FHA loan, not a conventional with 5% down (which was my goal to avoid upfront PMI and have it automatically drop off at 78% LTV).

If I buy a house for $400k, and the market drops and the house is now worth $300k, I am under water.

Total interest paid drops to $41,857.25 which is a savings of $35,808.08 (46.10%).We could improve upon this a little more by making bi-weekly payments of $291.88 + 140.38 = $432.26.