Or does her taking great care of the house outweigh the “always getting caught up”?

Yes, the tenants should understand your predicament and your challenges, but I think that your emotional stress and the potential risk of losing tenants in this challenging time outweighs the cost of a new dryer.

You will have a certain percentage of tenants who will think they can't break a lease and stay even if they really don't want to - but - they are not going to be happy tenants, which usually equals more work for you anyway.I just don't think the fraction of tenants who will comply with a lease simply based on what is written in it will outweigh the benefits of a M2M contract. 

Most times I hire it out, the chances of this going bad outweighs the value.  

The ease and comfort ability you will get with Missoula, MT far outweighs the cash flow potential of SE Minnesota.

But the resources and deals our realtors have brought to us vastly outweighs the cost imo.

In Madison - i think long term appreciation will outweigh the quick buck, unless you are going in to the situation as a flip.

Are you saying paying $10,000 extra principal on day one outweighs the interest you pay at only paying down $1,000 a month on the primary?

There comes a point when instant equity outweighs low or negative cash flow.

-Make documented attempts to contact original owner-Put a notice in a public forum (newspaper) giving him 30 days to claim it -Go through titling process and pay to have everything switched over (another 30 day process) -Repeat process for boat trailerFor me, the process outweighed the reward of selling it as a whole unit.