I've killed wild boar with 30-06 rifles, .44 mag pistols and knives and the knife kills are far faster than any of the gun kills as they induce massive blood loss far more efficiently than a gun kill.

I also look at a cap rate but place most of my weight on % based on downpayment bc that's my only "actual " loss on future investment potential.

If they had to mark their losses to market I am confident that MOST of the banks would have had to close.

No, the IRS would typically reclassify this if you have severe losses.

I've seen owners refuse to accept lower offers after the house has sat unrented for months for that very reason...but I've also seen owners cut their losses and accept lower bids to stop the bleeding.

Escrows are required under your security agreement to limit losses to the lender by a borrower failing to pay taxes or insurance or other items.

Through personal experience I have discovered that the better my ferrets diet is (i.e. extremely high protein food such as wysong dry food, they can't digest anything other than meat) the less odorous they are. 

I agree with David, and would add that with no mortgage holding costs may be minimal, but you might consider holding losses in your decision.

It would be advisable, no matter what legal entity you may so choose for you Real Estate business, to be keenly aware of the fact that the IRS is aggressively going after LLC/Investors who have been using the Professional Real Estate designation on their tax returns to offset losses etc. and holding property in Individual LLC's.

I live in one of the units so technically I take a $1000 loss each month which skews this number down a ton)  Still working a full time job, I need to net another 2k before I'm quitting.