Also dog water/food areas result in lots of heavy cleaning or animal licking too which eats finish.

@Tyler Winchell I sold it, licked my wounds, remembered my “why,” and kept going.

Intel is a great example, who is building the largest chip manufacturing plant in the US right here, and it will be a $20 billion dollar investment that brings a few new thousand jobs.https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/21/intel-ohio-building-computer-chip-factories-licking-county-jersey-township/9173472002/ Another example of economic growth is the upcoming Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Inpatient Hospital which is a 1.9million square foot hospital that will bring over 800 new beds and a thousand new jobs. https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/new-osu-hospital-expected-to-transform-health-careHere are a few more recent investments https://www.10tv.com/article/money/business/hydrogen-power-company-hyperion-bringing-700-jobs-to-columbus/530-25907aab-5517-4661-a9f3-d2ed2d5be6b0 https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-02-08/rumpke-to-build-50-million-recycling-facility-in-columbus Check out The Complete Guide to the Columbus, Ohio Real Estate Market which goes through the Columbus, Ohio market in depth and will give you a better scope of where the highest levels of growth are taking place and where to look to invest.

Hopefully, this year will be better.I have one more rental property that is actually doing well...Whew.I took some time off last year to re-group, re-learn, lick my wounds a bit and figure out what I'm doing wrong.

for long term rentals in non appreciating areas or areas of historic non appreciation I get it.I sold one of my homes in Palo Alto because I did not want 200 a month negative cash flow.. probably the worse mistake of my career.. that house just sold for 3 million and I paid 185k for it  there has been about 100k in upgrades though.and it would have within two years been even cash flow and if I held to today it would have been cashflowing 2 to 3k positive a month on top of all the equity.. but I just could not see in 1991 that the house could get more than the 500k I a was selling it for so I made a nice lick then.. and maybe that money over the years made me the 2.7 mil I left on the table.. but you know califorina.. hard to bet against..

Some bulk mail users dont want to spend the time peeling stamps so they pay a little more and use metered or print on stamps...I always use the peel and stick...Only set back is the 500 roll you have to tear each stamp and lick them your elf...All the other rolls 3000, or 10,000 you can just peel off...I buy the roll of 10,000 usually.

and this is why you should take your licks.

Uhm, don't lick the tree and wear shoes?

For example, you can't pay them $100/hour x $175/hour to mow lawns, lick envelopes, etc.