Too many people have the mentality that since the company is winning the consumer MUST lose.

You can figure out by the first 10 seconds if your going to have ether a professional tenant, complainer, or victim mentality tenant. 

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@Alexander Alguire Neither, It was the mental/emotional decision to ignore the little voice in my head saying 'that yield isn't enough' or ' another house sold for a better price three months ago so you should wait for one like that to come along' and write the check.

There might be a poor management/cleanliness issues that once corrected will boost occupancy and revenues. 

It was "harder" to spend the cash and easier to spend using a card, so we mentally leveraged to spend less overall. 

I would think you could find something in SD that would mimic or do better than your SJ deal, and if it was here and you manage it, you get a 8-10% boost in top line cash flow right there.  

It certainly doesn't pass the 1% nor the 50% "tests", so it leaves me not feeling cold about the deal.If you take out 10% management and boost repairs to 5% your monthly profit is $71.32/mo ($855.84/yr) and your C/C return goes to 4.90%. 

Just transitioning to something new and different is the challenge mentally because I've been saving for quite a while and it is kind of all i know.

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