She had come back to Greece with an €18,000 inheritance from head long-dead mother in Australia.

A run down junker or a bunch of dead beat tenants can result in much lower, or even negative, cash flow.That's just a quick and dirty analysis to determine if its worth digging deeper.

I'm not going to beat a dead horse.

The tenant base is polarizing, some super hard working, some super not hard working; some open to technology and others dead against it. 

I need to find the right steps because I’m always hitting a dead end on deceased owners

The mortgage interest rates, less any lost tax deductions, is the maximum your dead equity will earn sitting at risk in real estate.

I couldn't care less if the tenants hate me for evicting them, why do I care what a dead beats opinion of me is? 

If the place is substantially clean and only needs a quick re-sweep, and maybe there's one dead bulb or something, I generally skip it because it's not substantial.

You’ll be dead long before the ocean rises enough to take your house.

Unless your new properties also cash flow well, of course.By all means, get your financial house in order, but don't kill the golden goose to try to get all the eggs at once, as you might find yourself with only a dead goose and no eggs.