The car expense ate up most of his cash flow.  

The last tenant had a suction cup mat down and whatever cleaner they used just sat underneath and ate the finish up.

Both times I ate the expense of repair after the neighbor eventually had the tree cut-up and removed.

She ate up a lot of my time and neighbors were concerned for their safety.

In this scenario if I can get the appraisal to come in where I want it and actually refi at $500k, the only costs I ate to acquire the property were the total $30k in closing costs.

So people bought and ate the losses till 2007/2008 came and punched them square in the face and they suddenly realized how little they knew about the real estate business and the charlatans at play in a field of the naive.  

The Board ate him and his broker alive.

Over the course of a year my wife and I fixed it up, rented to friends, ate peanut butter and jelly, did everything we could.

Be sure and treat him with a couple bills for his input. these ate starters.Getting Permits, etc.

Funny, we all ate rib eye cuts.