Property will break even for the early term of the lease, then yield some money as rent increases (if rent increases).

If you know you want to do SFR and small MF already, then maybe come up with a 5 year plan for amount of doors or cumulative cash-flow and break it all the way down to goals you can achieve this year.

With M2M he wouldn't be breaking any lease terms and he had the choice to move.

Shoot the guy, put the fire out, call the coroner to pick up the body.

They often leave the area after working for months (just to take a break or to wait out a market downturn) but are fairly sure they'll be back and need a place to keep their stuff. 

Reality is no body knows what the environment will look like in 6 months or a year from now.  

Or am I breaking some kind of law?

It wouldn’t even break even without it.

A PM will make or break the property

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