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Just go a few steps up in quality... you’ll still cash flow on paper and even more in real life because you can’t put a price on quality, sane, and consistent tenants.

While trying to acclimate to my new life I made plenty of mistakes in the face of adversity.

Find great people and life turns on easy mode. 

You never know when you need the extra cash and never know if you will upgrade your life.   

In my area, we have an aggressive home owners association, that opposes up zoning, and report any violators.Normally, you can check with "city planning" on these issues.Then they make life difficult for violators.

You will lose money on this (hopefully you have the minimal resources for it not to bankrupt you) and for the rest of your life you'll tell anyone who listens that real estate is just a bad, bad, bad investment strategy.You jumped into a very tight, very difficult, very high-risk niche specialty without studying it carefully, without having worked with a more experienced investor, without a network and a team in place, without giving yourself a real chance to go through the learning curve.

I think we have avoided this issue for now because we are charging a security deposit for all human renters, regardless of whether they have a pet. 

Your real life returns will more closely match your on paper returns in better areas.

The mindset of changing your spending habits to investments rather than liabilities for the rest of your life is all that you really need to be successful in this.