I understand they can make our life a lot easier but is it worth it if it eats up a lot of our cash flow? 

I think you run a real risk of your second rental eating up the profits you're enjoying on the first one.

Property managers have established vendor relationships and can handle issues quickly.Cons of Hiring a Property Manager❌ Lower Profit Margins – Management fees (typically 8-12% of monthly rent) eat into your cash flow, which can be a dealbreaker if your margins are tight.❌ Less Control Over Tenants & Maintenance – You won’t be as involved in selecting tenants or overseeing repairs, which might lead to decisions you wouldn’t have made yourself.❌ Not All Property Managers Are Great – A bad property manager can neglect your property, overcharge for repairs, or poorly handle tenant relations, leading to unnecessary headaches.Which Option Is Right for You?

By poisoning the rats, you're letting them roam free into the world where people's pets can eat them, not wise. 

This way, we receive continuous updates from attorneys who eat, sleep, and breathe lending at minimal cost and we know we are always up to date.

The Exchange Accommodation Titleholder ("EAT"), often a sister company to the qualified intermediary, will form a single-member limited liability company and disregarded entity or ("SMLLC") to serve as the lessee.

The reality is you have to pay for services like this and be prepared to eat the cost if the deal doesn't pan out.

I feel terrible walking away...but i was under incredible stress (not sleeping and eating like crap) trying to figure it out and make the quotes work by paring back finishes.

We were there looking for another property that we could buy together on the beach that we could rent out as a short-term vacation rental.We we're living it up and having a fantastic time zip lining, eating delicious food, and seeing the monkeys in the wild.it seems like from the moment I returned from that trip in August 2022 the real estate market completely changed.

Sure, mortgage insurance eats into your cash flow a little bit if you're putting less than 20% down but in the scheme of things it's really not that much.Also, you won't have 20% equity in your property in a year assuming you put 10% down unless you are forcing appreciation or you somehow get some high market appreciation.