Getting to the plate first is KEY --  whether I'm talking about baseball or  eating food. 

Plus I had a blast eating my DQ Buster Bar and loading up my bag with souvenirs from Oriental Trading for friends and family! 

This would especially appeal to people with eating problems as they wouldn't have much food on hand to tempt them when home. 

When that happens that would effectively eat up all the earnings and put me in negative cash flow right away.

In new construction the common charges always jump dramatically in the first few years, eating into your profit.

I’m going to take him up on it, eat the appraisal and title work and move on.  

Imagine going into Kroger and saying you have to eat so you'll pay it back when you get the money. 

It just eats up too much equity. 

We are going out to eat again, traveling, and taking our first vacation in more than a year.

comes to mind.Now flash forward about two years to where we are now, and the purchase price of a fix and flip in FS is going to be a considerable amount more in most cases than it was just two years ago- the numbers here might not make as much sense then in this case (it's certainly going to eat away quickly at your ROI).There are some 'younger siblings' of FS that I would consider more enticing right now for various reasons.