If they pay for the utility seperatly you can take them to court after they leave whereas if it is included in the rent the landlord eats the cost.

Eat it all up...

My husband is the purchasing manager for a residential builder in our town and we eat lunch at his office once a week.

Reality is, unless you like to travel to the spot in the off season you'll be eating up your potential bookings and thus profit by travelling when everyone else is.

However, look at the property taxes for each prospective property - they can run relatively high and definitely have the potential to eat up your profits.

I'd REALLY love to be able to take down a $2m property every two years, but with 30% down from my local bank, I'd have to save up for approximately 40 years for a down payment.How do you eat an elephant, my friend? 

If I screw up the estimate to you and it ends up taking me a lot more time, I have to eat the costs.

That will further eat into your cash flow. 

You guys eat, breathe, and sleep this stuff.

They are not very liquid and depend on business sales to survive.Higher median income areas of 100k or more the people's idea of roughing it is eating steak 1 time a week instead of 3.