You're essentially guaranteed to have negative cash flow.Rent: $1100Expenses: $550 (includes taxes and insurance)NOI: $550Payment: $864 ($130K, 7%, 30 years)Cash flow: -$314If your taxes really are $416 a month, your expenses will probably be higher than this $550 estimate.If you put down 20% your payment will be less:Payment: $692Cash Flow: -$142

B has always been a good paying tenant, a stay would almost be guaranteed to be granted.

Which is what I was alluding to without quoting the entire founding father papers.It is also basically surmised by the phrase "the pursuit of happiness" not the guarantee to reach that happiness.And "Those who will not work neither let them eat".

Instant Guaranteed Approval.

For me cold calling these listing agents were no big deal to me, I'd go through 5 or 6 before I'd get one, but I could guarantee that I could get a new short sale deal every single day by cold calling.

In which case they would probably just give you some type of referral fee if they end up getting the deal.Short sales can be an arduous affair, and there is no guarantee of if and for how much you will get the property for.

I would get about 10% of what I would have received with a private sale, but the animal had something wrong, temperament or soundness, and I didn't want to guarantee it.

Our Marriott Hotel had displays of roses like you've NEVER seen in your life, guaranteed.

I don't care where you are, there are absolutely no guarantees of rent growth (nothing is ever guaranteed) so you can't be sure when the bleeding will stop.

Commercial debt has a higher constant than residential debt in many cases because of how it is traded and guaranteed.