It's normally the desire for immediate income that steers most investors towards bad investments because they are hyper focused on cash flow which is often portrayed differently in spreadsheets than in real life, and should be a consideration but not deciding factor.

I have been asked this question several times this week and after speaking to property managers, developers, investors, tourists, and realtors in the area, I have found several factors that combined have lowered the occupancy, especially during summer. 1.

That is $19,200 annual profit so you would be -$3,200 in 1 year with no factoring of breakage and maintenance.

What other factors should I be considering?

However, when you factor in the HELOC, we have a negative / break-even cash flow (HELOC payments are about 25% of the revenue from both).

Values in Commercial are a RESULT of the factors that formulate it's financial performance. 

They're good to have open access to capital/cash/equity to a property ahead of time so you can execute a deal or purchase when the time comes on a split second decision (versus having to apply to a loan at that time which might take 20-45 days to get approved/closed/etc plus by that time you dont know what your future income/credit/assets will be like in order to qualify anyway).The second use is sleep at night factor and having a reserve of capital in the event an emergency event occurs in life.For these two reasons is why I use lines of credit.

However, this wouldn’t typically happen directly because of the appraisal issues themselves, unless factors like low market rents or a lower-than-expected appraised value shifted your loan into a different pricing tier.

This protects you if you have to fire them.2) Pest treatments would depend on the location.

That's a factor to consider if you have children and want them to be in a good school district.