Cancel any subscriptions you may have (gym, cable, etc), stop eating out, get a second job or start a side business.

In my situation we consider trimming of bushes, weed eating, weeding, mowing, etc to be routine maintenance, but not trimming of trees.  

@Vishal Taylor you can have your cake and eat it too through the use of a-- 721 UPREIT.A number of the top REITS allow you to initially 1031 into a DST on a temporary basis and after 2 years the REIT absorbs the DST and converts your ownership into shares in the REIT. 

But when you wake up in the morning and feel a draw to start looking through homes or listing within the first hour that your are awake, I don't think it is difficult to continue to persist.Or if you simply want to eat and feed your family.. its a chosen profession.  

It's honestly very simple; how did you find where you wanted to eat this week?

Taking the costs from the security deposit only makes sense if they already think they aren't getting it back, in which case you will eat the loss.

IT WILL LOOK LIKE THIS (WHEN DETERMINING YOUR BUY PRICE WITH THE SELLER OF THE FORECLOSURE DEAL WHICH WILL BE THE BANK): $300,000 X 70% - ( $20,000 + $10,000 + $1,500 + $20,000) = PRELIMINARY NEGOTIATED PRICE210,000 - (51,500)=$158,500 WILL BE YOUR ASKING PRICE-  REMEMBER YOU CAN EXHAUST THE $20K BUFFER AND CAN EAT INTO SOME OF YOUR WHOLESALE FEE IF NEEDED OR IF DEALING WITH A TOUGH SELLER. 

Or eat it yourself.I give tenants three options and one week to respond:1.

Would that not eat up all your cash flow repaying?

But at any rate, rather than get into all that, better to just eat the $400 or whatever and save yourself them being in there 2-4 extra months, which costs what 10 times that. :/