If they aren't eating they will die but will leave a bad smell in the attic.

If you have a vacancy, the landlord eats that expense.Hope this helps.Mark

My firm also likes to experiment with different materials and construction techniques, green building methods, and inexpensive/alternative methods of construction, although most of this work is never built since our investor clients want to stick to tried-and-true methods (and we don't blame them for that).

Also consider adding some of the brilliant Caribbean colored accent somewhere: turqouise, seafoam green, coral .

Its good for local economy but eats my possible deals alive.

They eat up cash flow and produce no returns.Low equity in one's own home along with a high monthly PITI payment is likewise a drag on one's financial resources.If, however, one's home is a residential multi-family (BP'ers call that "house hacking"), then the picture takes a different dimension which will be determined by the ownership of the MFR.

When I do this I am usually using 20 year financing on the first and 5-10 year on the second which eats up a lot of the cashflow.

Money is just green paper.

Drop valuable stuff at an auction, take things that aren't really valuable but can be used and donate for tax write off, and just throw trash away.This is the approach we are using now but we are doing it ourselves and still eating our time frame.Simple question I'm just curious to find out a more creative way to handle something like this.

@Shevroy Green.. next meeting will be the third thursday in August