Smoke ruins houses.

At the same time, a mediocre or bad operator will take a community that is strong in virtually every other aspect, and ruin it.

I think the small "mom and pop" businesses do a nice job of really providing a one on one service to people, but a few bad eggs ruin the potential to run a profitable win win business by NOT being upfront andthere for the client- every step of the way all the way to funding if need be.Newbie here..Cyndi

Is that $300 a month ruining your other investments?

A poor manager can ruin the best deal.

You don't want the SEC and angry investors to ever come back and ruin your investing career on the first deal.

Cancer, heart disease, asthma rates and birth defects are off the charts in that part of town. 80216 tops the list of most polluted zip codes in the US. 

Roaches holes in walls ruined carpet every wall needs painted broken vanity tore up vinyl floors .

I am fortunate enough that I do enjoy my job and working with patient’s within my office in the Cancer Institute is very rewarding so I am not necessarily in this to quit my job but would like to have the peace of mind to know that I could quit if I wanted to.

I creased neighbor complaints.you can make more money but you can also have more problems and ruin the neighborhood.