Going the extra time will certainly eat into our profit margin on this deal which was the largest mistake.

Its very expensive and will eat your profits fast, Also if you make some errors in your assumptions which you will especially if you're going it alone you may end up losing money. 

One bad tenant can eat up $10,000 without even trying.You can start by going to www.narpm.org to search their directory of managers.

So you want to take a non deductible expense and expense  it, to lower your taxable income (have your cake).....but not have it lower your income for credit qualification purposes (eat your cake too).....good luck. 

We could do a conventional loan with down payment of 20% on 150k property but that would eat up alot of our savings and also leave not much for repairs, vacancy, insurance and maintenence.

I will look into local food pantries as a way to eat for the next few weeks.

We all need to eat so share those recipes each week.Just curious, what kind of restaurant?

Although it looks like there's a likelihood of inflation eating into that higher number. 

Congrats on saving a little nest egg!

Last time we talked she said she "should be getting it soon".She dosnt work for a company, she is driving for Postmates, its like Uber Eats.