These can eat into your positive cash flow.

if i was you, i would start eating less, wear same clothes and drive less, perhaps sell a car (if it's exotic enough) and buy a cheap one.

Check with all members of your family and all of your friends on a partner deal for something like this before going to hard money lenders and having their rates eat up some of your potential profits.  

., volunteer fire department, EMTs, town police, cool little places to eat and a lot of small businesses.

All I ask is that anyone that complains about fees or wants a rebate go get licensed and just do it yourself.It's like someone goes out to eat because they want steak and leaves a small tip or no tip.

You can start smaller, but it could eat too much of your savings into one deal, and that isn't diversification.

If you like holding onto this admittedly awesome property to see where the market goes, eating the taxes and keeping your portfolio tied up in just one or two props, Option A would make sense.

The PM will eat up ~$2240 a year. 

tenant damage can eat up a low vacancy rate VERY easily. 

Agents can be useful members of your team, but in the situation you've laid out, I'm not entirely sure how they will be valuable to you and will just uselessly eat into whatever kind of margin/profit you would be making on the dealAny other details I may need to get this thing rolling.I'm a little confused on your exit strategy here.