Remember the Golden Rule, 'He who has the gold gets to make the rules'.

thank you so much for this answer, and the idea of selling to my llc. gold. 

Are you asking if you should pay the difference between the regular water bill and the bill after it started leaking.If it were mine (and it was a leaking pipe--not fixture), I would cover it. 

you can sell and no lose too much money, and look for a good investment, since it sounds like you paid too much relative to rental income  (mine is the same, but it was not bought as an investment, just my last house in a market that crashed so I couldn't sell without pain)

If you know this is going to happen it's often better to be the guy selling the shovels than the one mining the gold.  

If your finance office is anything like mine, they're going to try to nail you for even thinking about trying this.

Jordan has helped me identify, purchase, rehab (project manage) and lease my properties in Lubbock - he's worth double his weight in gold. 

@Russell BrazilEven if it’s 30k acres of mining territory?

Or mine?

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