If I want to eat healthier, I assign more points to the positive habit I want to focus on, but also reward myself for NOT doing that bad habit.

As my Dad always said, 'There is no eating ice cream in hell- get outta there...

@Austin Berlick,There are essentially two ways to outsource the grunt work of “landlording”—unfortunately, both will eat into your margins.The first is to hire a professional property management company—this will cost you between 5% and 15% of rents, plus surcharges for out-of-scope services.

Also know that turns are costly and will eat into your profits like an alligator.

Unless your mechanically handy your maintenance costs will eat you up.  

Meaning me and my partner  would have to eat that loss and come out of pocket to augment the rent to pay the full mortgage for at least a decade or so .

Actually, in this hypothetical case, you'd be better off eating the $19k lien, tax lien, or whatever it is, 25 years of daily dog walking sucks!

Maybe also combine that with moving job market where people don't have 20-30-40 year company careers, but need to change jobs every 2-3 years now and  change locations with perhaps 401k cashouts, or more expenses that eat up savings between jobs, and moving expenses between jobs.

That's going to eat time, and that's too devastating.

That’s why STVR managers don t rely on property appreciation to be successful. “ You can t eat appreciation”.Professional , small business owners and high income investors don t buy into syndications where syndicators dock them with high front end expenses.