It didn’t seem like a big deal to just leave it.

Booking.com leaves Airbnb in the dust in my area.

If those earnings didn't stay the same or increase, that could leave the lenders with folks that go bankrupt trying to pay for a property they can't make perform like you did.

By this time, I realized Chris was wholesaling the house to me (unlike the other houses on the tour) and charging me to manage the project.

They'll typically leave behind mattresses, couches, broken furniture, rotten food, etc.

Two days later my partner went to the house, no supplies, no workers. 

For a first time investor, I definitely recommend house hacking for most people as homeowner loans are by far the best in terms of rate and LTV. 

https://www.har.com/content/department/newsroom?pid=2141Houston Real Estate Highlights for December and Full-Year 2024:
-Following two consecutive years of declines, single-family home sales rebounded in 2024 with 85...

What the city housing clerk is telling me is that there was a water leak from behind the sink pedestal on the second floor bathroom that has been running for a week. 

Our first accepted offer was a 320 unit deal that we contracted, put up non-refundable (yeah, I know) earnest money, and thought we had our financing and money in place to do the deal.  2 weeks before closing a major (several million) partner pulled out leaving us short of the funds needed to close.