The vast majority of them have no idea what a good investment looks like, have never analyzed a rental property in their life, and they made costly mistakes that sometimes ate up several years of income.

I thought i was saving money (being a smart investor) by having a 5k deductible.... well i had a water damage loss in a rental and that extra 2500 out of my pocket ate up my income for that unit pretty fast!

Thank you everyone for being so kind and welcoming to the group and I so appreciate the advice on where to start as this can be overwhelming when you first join and especially when you ate new to real estate and the investing world.

I know nothing about the San Antonio market but I looked into San Antonio a few years ago and was caught off guard by how high the property tax was, really ate into the cash flow.

They ate all the labels off the cans in the pantry and we started putting out traps.

Construction was closed down for two months due to a city mandate that ate up two months of my twelve-month loan with one of my HML.

I let her go and ate a $8,000 loss rather than make my tenant and her little girl homeless. 

What ate you guys seeing/doing out there?

My PM has never gone after this money unfortunately, we just kind of ate the cost.

They gave us the same excuse & we ate it.