Across the board, the worse the neighborhood, the better the cash flow, the better the neighborhood, the trade off for tenants base, better schools, low crime, etc etc.

You clearly misread the market here and could have done a lot better IMO.

I would love a calculator that could help me make better decisions but not sure that exists.

I agree with the other contributor that it’s better to own a $1M asset that appreciates 3% per year that pays no cash flow (over the long term) rather than a $100k asset that appreciates 3% and pays $300 a month in cash flow.

I do recommend creating (and keeping updated) written policies for all of your leasing and screening process, and making them available to folks during the application and screening process (talking about, sending links to, emailing, & reminding, the more times they see it the better even though they likely won't read it).

At that point, it's worth researching and finding a solution that better meets your needs.

So, perhaps hiring a couple day laborers to help them move or even paying the 1st months rent on a storage unit would be better.

I have other assets in Canada but I looking at bringing everything here when the exchange rate is better.

Which is better way to legally structure the properties for protecting assets against tenant lawsuits.

So I pay it, and every few weeks when the stars align and I have no work meetings at the time, I join, listen to other people's questions and Peter's answers and that's it.At least after reading your post I feel better knowing that some clever tactics were practiced to get me into this and not that I was easily fooled.I would be happy to share info if yiu think it will help others make decisions and avoid shortcomings, and I would appreciate it if you have some advice that might help me get out of this situation.Thank you!