I'm willing to cover the food and drinks.

They first need to pull credit because the rates are based off your credit score, the number of financed properties that you have, the location of the property, your debt-to-income ratio, the occupancy of the property, and what their investors release on a daily basis based on market fluctuations.

The manager could have maybe done a better job during the inspection and looked for any evidence of pets - food bowls, feces, beds, toys, etc. but maybe the tenants were thorough in hiding all that.

You can do it. 10 years is a super reasonable timeline, particularly for higher income busy pros who can live below their means, invest consistently, and take daily action.

For example, every act of vandalism in my neighborhood would be reported to the police immediately, but in other parts of town buildings are tagged on a daily basis, and no one bothers to fill out a report.

(Also, Serrano's across the street has solid food and beer for after Haha.)

I recommend setting up keyword alerts for each area as they are discussed in the forums daily with advertisements posted in the BiggerPockets marketplace hourly.One thing to note when looking at the individual markets, you can make or lose money in any market.

Food for thought...

I really shouldn’t care as it’s such a small amount and I feel like the “out-the-door” price is more than fair, it just pisses me off because they were late, one of the cuts was slightly off (which hopefully shouldn’t be noticeable because we’re adding a backsplash), and I even bought them dinner as we ordered out and I didn’t want to be rude and thought it was a nice gesture (they ended up not eating, just finishing the job, and took their food for the road).

@Lynnette E. i dont know what they grew, but growing food/plants is back breaking work.