It will likely continue to rise over time, eating away at my profits.

Eating trim is probably the worst part - though some are not house trained well either.

So, after 10 minutes of preheating, the stove wouldn't be 425/450 or whatever she was setting it to, because it wasn't preheated enough.Would you charge the tenant the repairman's bill for his base visit cost, or should we eat the cost because we chose to not go over and test what she was claiming, before we called in a repairman?

Mary has a less emotional (or non-spiteful) manner in how she espouses for the benefits of paying higher taxes.Let's not 'eat the rich'.

Meaning, with the amount of capital that we've been able to save, about $100K, we like to use that to pay for rehab, sell the house, and get it all back plus our profit so that we can "turn the crank again" on the next property and keep growing that nest egg.

I am going through a Masshousing program as well and PMI still really eats your cashflow. 

Market TI could eat up a good portion of the lease value depending on the term.

Any advise on the best way to remove the bad egg?

I do believe BTC is already eating into gold's market.

Those expenses will eat into any potential profit.