Instead of buying your new property we as the QI form a holding entity called the Exchange Accommodating Title holder (EAT). 

If they were good tenants for 24 months I’d be tempted to eat the touch up.

When clients create "waste," the lawyer can either decide to eat that time as a service or they will start billing for it.

Nice way to have your cake and eat it too (whatever that means)

Cold calling is a dog eat dog world.

So I am trying to be reasonable but all these service requests etc are eating into the cash flow and I believe I have been enabling a "terrorist".

Way to many stories about not getting paid for months, owners having to eat days or weeks due to guest cancellations etc.Not worth the potential hassle.

Especially now with HML rates as high as they are, the carrying costs combined with the initiation costs can eat up most of your profits especially if you have to extend the loan and pay even more.The self-financing option has been our primary funding source since we built up a war chest from past flips but starting out it would not have worked. 

That's the sound of termites eating your investment.

That would be akin to a snake eating its own tail.Too much time on the internet can definitely lead to confusion on these topics.