I have a tenant who, to no fault of her own or the landlord's, has had to endure dealing with a flooded kitchen due to a broken water pipe.

Is the satisfaction from mastering this skill greater or less than the heartache and stress you may endure?

For more than a year I have been preaching to the enduring state of this and how a landlord can not rely upon the mirage on the horizon of return to "normal", it is just that, a mirage, this IS the "new normal".

For the privilege of being a tyrant of the HOA they will endure any burden that the job entails.

For J Scott...Hope you had a wonderful weekend with family and friends and a joyous time free from the misery of enduring those cold-calls!

(i.e. loud) We’d like to be far enough south that there is little chance of “enduring” a 55 degree week during the winter.

Our aim is clear: empower couples to attain financial freedom while building enduring and thriving bonds because we firmly believe that a strong partnership is the key to success, be it in real estate or in life.

Fine by me, I know what pain feels like and I'd much rather endure the pain of turning over a thousand stones to find a single deal than to have a thousand deals burying me under a mountain of stones.Even in this strong market and with well underwritten acquisitions, we still have properties we struggle with from time-to-time for various reasons, requiring us to make difficult decisions. 

Or maybe I endure a few years of negative cash flow, which makes sense.  

The real game-changer is whether the property can endure the ups and downs over a long period.Let me give you a personal example.