What he does not know yet is that selling even with a loss, is not going to be easy either.You don't need to make all your money on your first deal.

You can probably make up for the perceived loss through the reinvestment in your US business.

If you can't get flexible terms to get the deal to work, then you lose your shirt on losses.

The main drivers1) Local Inventory2) 10 year treasury(macro)3) Personal Debt levels(macro)4) Real Unemployment(not the unemployment number but real white collar job loss ratio'd to part time jobs). 5) Industry proliferation(can't tell me a tech or finance hub moves like a health hub).To tell me #2 will derive from the same inputs as it did in Sep/Oct, I'm willing to bet it won't.

The rental might be vacant for a month,(8% loss) or a tenant might not pay for a month while you pay to evict them.(8-16% loss)  A $1,000 appliance/water heater, or a $8k rook or hvac unit might go out.(5-40% loss)  You should be paying a PM 8%.

Your profile mentions that you are an agent with rentals.You would want to see if you are able to claim real estate professional status.If you are able to claim real estate professional status, you can potentially offset the rental losses with your real estate agent income.Furthermore, TN does not have a state income tax allowing you to be more open with your options.Best of luck

Tools were recovered and pest control was terminated.So we are naturally in a very secure area in one of the safest cities in CA.  

Someone told me its very hard to sell these properties and you have to sell them at a loss if you want to get rid of them.

By late October, after 60 days of vacancy and two rent reductions), the same Dundee RTR listing remained advertised on RTR’s inventory site at their initial rent projection.I have been working with RTR’s client success manager through these issues, and I am cautiously optimistic RTR will act in good faith to help offset the losses here once it’s finally rented.

So I am at a loss and would really appreciate any advice.