If you spend it now, you lose your leverage for the rest of the lease, and you'll have nothing to handle unpaid rent, cleaning, or repairs after termination.You are starting down a dangerous path.

I have found excess service calls to be very rare and they have been limited to tenants that were already known problem people (usually people with some kind of pretty obvious personality disorder).

As an agent with a team we can't work on deals much under 200k without losing money.

Confirm with your CPA that any excess loss was reviewed for NOL calculation and properly carried forward.

Quote from @Jose Remor: Yes, you can save $500 by managing yourself, but you can also lose a lot more than that with some rookie management mistakes.

Evictions take months here in DE so you could potentially lose out on 4 months rent or so and have to rehab the house. 

Not only do they lose the retirement balance, but also they incur a 10% premature withdrawal penalty.  

Investors buy shares and earn returns through dividends and potential stock price appreciation.You typically can’t lose more than your initial investment with publicly traded REITs.

. :) Having more than ten bank accounts is excessive, in my opinion. 

However, the potential long-term rent is about the same as our mortgage, meaning we’d lose money when factoring in repairs and maintenance.3.