It's "not there fault" it's the rich..... the "rich not paying there fair share".....

My insurance is more than double for what I pay for a SFH in the same area.

From what I gather, the capital appreciation is little to none.At the moment, I am getting a 7% return from dividend-paying US ETFs with practically little time and effort.Would you consider investing in condos in Thailand that don't show more than 10 to 12% ROI and I'm talking about ROI as rental income.

I have $50K in debt with a payment of about $1220 in a consolidation loan that will be payed off in 3 years.

Very wealthy awesome people and they really like me......SOOO i explain the situation and they see my track record and BOOM I borrow 80k @ 10% APR interest only payments for 12 months with NO EARLY PAY OFF PENALTY (bless them) and i fix up the house and get a renter in there.

We absolutely never allow them to pay the costs and then "just take it out of rent" later! 

Tenant not paying is thief in my book any day.  

I understand that it's best to have a buyer ready to pay cash for the property before you sign a contract with seller, but is it a viable option in the real world we live in?

July they are going to pay late rent again.

one of the partners that we went in on the deal with owned two other car washes nearby that are self-service wash style you mentioned and although our full service wash had a much higher average ticket value and overall more revenue, his other two washes averaged less than 1% in labor cost where our full service was would be between 20%-30% on any given day. we ran a detail crew of around 5 people and then had around 10 or so people on hand to handle the car wash traffic. we tried to get away with not hand drying the vehicles after they exited the wash but the previous owner had made that a staple of the business so when we stopped doing it people got frustrated and we decided to keep that a part of the process. in doing so that means you have to pay labor tax!