(things to do, places to eat, school district, etc.)

Damages can eat up your profits quickly. 

Spending $20k on exterior if windows roof and painting are needed will eat up costs pretty fastBest to itemize what needs to be done and then determine a rough estimated cost

Eat frigging crab-legs for breakfast dinner and lunch?

(Sorry, my dear Friendly Fairbankians), most people won't spend money to go to Fairbanks and eat frozen moose when it's 40 degrees below zero.

I elect to leave the tenant in peace and eat the vacancy cost and not show until they are moved out for the same reason. 

There’s no secret formula out there, you will find it near impossible to cash flow with these rates almost anywhere in the greater dmv, you can put more down, you can eat negative cash flow, you can invest in another market (I like the eastern shore, though even there you are probably breaking even at best) or you can put your money in a different asset class, the market decides your return’s for the most part, not you. 

If he doesn't, let him know you'll eat it this time but going forward you're going to have look out for yourself.

Claim they had to eat out and also they had to use laundromat.As a landlord in California, San jose am I liable for this?

So that interest eats into our profit and the profit number we split is slightly smaller.