Our expenses have gone nuts and we aren't able to, or ethnically able to push rents fast enough to break even. 

It seems like you might be ready for the next step and start rehabbing the lowest hanging fruit.

If he is nuts enough to file, that is going to be a great hearing. 

The guy is nuts, nobody was trying to get rid of him - he was demanding to get out of the lease and sent a 30 day notice to vacate, we agreed to his demands. 

Jillian - This is a hard nut to crack on a psf basis because every renovation has a different scope.

Scott and what Financeautomaton (Just breaking your nuts a bit there) suggest...I also come at this from a slightly different perspective, having done BPOs for awhile back when the money for BPOs was still good.

They have wire nuts for copper to aluminum wire , they are expensive .

Instead of chasing success, I focused on crafting a genuine connection with my clients through informative videos and a heartfelt commitment to service.As the seeds of change took root, the fruits of my labor began to blossom.

With a mortgage, you MIGHT get hammered if real estate prices fall, but you WILL get hammered when some economically ignorant "tenants rights" advocate or politician encourages people to not pay their rents, and now you can't make your monthly nut.

If it's in TN (as opposed to N GA) you property taxes alone will be close to 15% and with the habitational insurance markets going nuts, you're probably almost at 30% combined on those two.