Cash flow can pay the bills and ideally assist in building equity, but if you can sell your appreciated property and make 15 or 20 years worth of cash flow to then reinvest in more properties that offer higher returns (likely with lower CapEx) then you can see exponential growth... all about intelligently scaling your investments if you desire to grow wealth quickly.

I understand that Chat GPT is an Artificial Intelligence and its responses may not be accurate.  

If there's an area where they are not friendly to businesses or that particular business was kind of on the edge anyway, so that a recession kills it, and the town, rather than intelligently look at how to make their town friendly to investors and businesses, they decide to just start taxing - without considering that the taxes look great on a presentation screen, but what if people move away instead of pay those taxes - they just rang the death knell for their dying town.Anyway, in my usual concise way, my point is that this will hurt even towns that are smart enough to embrace their university students. 

Unless you want to artificially increase the rent and then give them a discount, but I agree with Joe-they signed a document saying they'd pay the rent on time and they should do so.

Essentially, your rents are held artificially low, so that the management company can tack on their own fees and the total comes out to something that sounds reasonable.   

I think the prices are artificially constrained because of the inability to develop new housing stock to meet the demand for housing. 

For all the wealth of information and advice from intelligent people like you.Thank you,-Richard

Anyone intelligent out there that actually has comprehension of a simple question? 

If you are half intelligent and somewhat mechanical heating systems are not rocket science by any stretch of the imagination.

Not leveraging your portfolio, either via a refinance or more indirectly in an equity raise, is a poor financial decision, from a tax standpoint as well as a growth standpoint.The only reason it doesn’t make sense is if your investment property is fundamentally a loser to begin with, or if you do not have financial intelligence and think it’s a good idea to pay off your loans 100%.