He has had multiple failed properties like Southwest Crossing at Bee Creek (TX) in which a $100,000 investor with cash calls didn't even recover their full cash call amount at the end, while he continued to collect management fees right until the very last month of sale. 

Some markets have recovered to being at pre-covid levels, but most have not.

Most times the water usage drop is significant and the residents are much more likely to notify you when they have a leaking toilet etc.We've also found that the expenses for the material and install is often recovered within two years or less.Sometimes we need to reduce the rent by $20-30 less than what we would otherwise be able to rent it for, but in some cases, it doesn’t affect the rent at all.

The fact that you were able to recover and rebook isn't relevant.

The next year say CPI is 3%, it would be nice if they could recover from the rent that was below cpi but they cannot as the LL can only raise rents 3%.  

If you out the pedestal in, we have 10 years from installation, not lot sale to recover thru usage.  

You could spend days trying to recover this floor and it may never be right.

Once you've contacted whom you want, then you tell them to pull your credit say one particular week.A credit check here and there doesn't kill your credit, and it recovers relatively quickly.

They would rather wait to see market bumping up from the bottom with less return to curb risk exposure.Back then you could do owner finance and the hope was after turning around and the market recovering in a few years you would get the equity appreciation and solve the sellers issues.Today there is too many buyers that have cash that want to buy property whether it's commercial or residential.

It would take 1 year at the extra $200 to recover that money.