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%.

Just some food for thought.Roger So if I bought one for $7,500, and it probably needs a few thousand dollars of work (more than 1, less than 10).

If even 1 tenant was not paying on time, it would report a loss.

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.

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

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.

Maybe even failure to take full advantage of an opportunity, resulting in a loss of potential profit or benefit.

If you can hold on till first part of January the showings and everything else should pickup.This would be my action items: 1. hire a new agent that can sell the place, and get you numbers are rent and selling and sell the place. 2. be honest on the numbers you can get on an ARV so that you can sell it 3. start to get the conversation started with a couple lenders on what these numbers on refi would look like for you and this property 4. my suggestion would be to refi/rent before selling at a loss because if numbers work you can hold for a couple years then sell, but this is dependent on your cash position and liquidity of your situation. 

Although we do have deals on the lending side that dont work but we are not forced into a position to take big loss's like we were when the banks were calling our loans.. this will happen in the DSCR world as all these folks are using same type of debt IE debt that can be called based on the terms of the debt or like you have seen with the syndicators that are talked about on BP max leverage bad debt things dont go right And you have cap calls or projects totally lost. 

@Steve Englehart why would you sacrifice the tax penalty losses for short-term cashflow gains?