If you don't know how to do the math and when broker or friend will help you then you should stay out or the real estate business or just cross your fingers and pray.As for the area you invest in, I would definitely stay away from investing out of your area and I can write books on the reasons why you lose a huge percent of your potential income, or even lose money and hate the real estate business.Never forget that nobody represents you.

Waiving the inspection simply means you are willing to lose your earnest money to get the deal under contract.  

I actually managed to lose money even as a long-time GC with a partner who had deep, deep pockets. 

Tenancy laws freezing rents during Covid until end 2021 and only allowing to increase rent (5% ish) once every 12 months - the landlord is definitely losing potential capital.What could/would you do in both the Landlord and Tenant situations?

There would be a 3-strike you’re out rule for violations with an increasing fine structure for the owners before losing their license for the remainder of the 2 year period.

So here's the bill:1 Service call (July Special) 1.00 $100.00 $30.00(30.00%)No Tax $70.002 Labor (defrost and clean condenser coil) 2.00 $100.00 $20.00(10.00%)No Tax $180.003 Co2 Coil Cleaning 1.00 $25.00 $1.25(5.00%)$1.43(6%)$25.184 R-410a Refrigerant 2.00 $65.00 $0.00 $7.80(6%)$137.80Subtotal (without tax) $403.75Taxes $9.23Grand Total ($) $412.98As an aside, the fact that vendor added refrigerant is a red flag to me, as it's my understanding that cooling systems generally don't lose refrigerant unless there's a leak, in which case the leak needs to be addressed.TL;DR: AC not cooling.

Thanks to new lender and great Realtor we didn't lose the investment property.

Also you are losing money with a couple months vacancy. 

The 34-year-old owner of the business told me, he could not send employees to do the job, because he would lose money!

I have a deal that may be in jeopardy in Polson MT.  We have been through 2 months of appraisals with 2 different appraisers both of which have refused to appraise our property because they claim that there is a lack ...