They also know to live on the harvest and not eat the seeds.

Credit card is good but the fees eat into your profit margins.

Find a full-service broker who eats the cost of expert photography (we're out there!)

If you're new, I can almost gaurantee these tenants are going to eat your lunch.

If the appraiser did an obviously horrible job, I would ask the lender to eat the cost on the new appraisals.In my nearly 10 years of appraisal experience, I've found most appraisal reconsideration requests are bogus.

Yeah, I've been told the holding costs were "built in" and I knew the holdings would eat a bit of the profit but 26k is great.

Not many, but they may when you want to sell and your title insurance will not cover that without a proper survey you may have bought a rental or incurr legal fees trying to get that garage moved or exempted.I don't think 30 days of studying before you leap is unreasonable or will keep anyone from eating that much later.

Seems like the mess is going to eat up all the deposit anyway.

Then they soon find this isn't so easy and the PM is eating the little bit of cashflow and they have to come to the table every month to keep the thing going, this goes on for awhile then a unit gets torn up and they become very motivated to unload.

The more you tie up your money, especially if you have a loan the more profit you eating up.