'Click bait' or just an idle threat, BUT the impact of this level of 'progressive' taxation would/SHOULD be the final incentive to bail."...Top New York firms that toughed it out through the pandemic are now considering packing their bags over $7 billion in proposed new state taxes.

@Shane H. that certainly sucks and I have had dirt bag tenants as well and to this day if my wife utters their names it ticks me off all over again, sounds pathetic but its true.  

What you really want, boiled down to its simplest terms, is to go up to the second window and have them pass out a bag with two tangy flaked and formed pork sandwiches in it, and no need to go for the extra value meal to get a deal.

Same BS, different day and different crop of newbs with all the right answers".Is this any different than the Sports world debating who will win the Super Bowl or World Cup?

You pick up a bag a chips.

I just need to learn to embrace the idea that spending money on an investment property, and carrying debt that makes me money, is entirely different than financing a new sports car, or putting a vacation on a credit card.  

If you are trying to run it like an AirBNB, then you will probably be left holding the bag on running it.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies that spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

In my opinion, I think it is so effective in real estate because investing is such a “team based” sport and there is a limited amount you can do by yourself.

But in this case, it didn't, for a couple of reasons 1) @Alex Craig (while his choice in sports teams is questionable, his knowledge of Memphis and Little Rock real estate is not) made a great point about some good B class areas being just down the street.