No telling it wasn't from a previous landlord. ( She hadn't been vetted yet. ) Just saying, if the milk smells bad, I don't have to drink it to prove it.

My strategy is not to milk a cheap house for as much as I can, but rather it is to offer a residence that is reliable, presentable, and fairly priced for both myself and the tenant. 

They milked the bill.

How many of your tenants have decided to do as you say in your first post, i.e. not pay the rent and just milk it as far as they can?

yea i'm very fortunate to see this loophole lol, basically i just use my w2 status to "trick" the gov. loan to my flipping activity lol so ya it works....i keep buying and selling one flip every 2 3 years with minimum risk. key is to identify which bank that's willing to work with me although my dti has been maximinized..... i think i will continue do this til i have no w2.it's funny actually i made more dollar from real estate rather than working in tech although i spend most of professional time in tech....but if i have to moveto real estate world then like you say i can't get the loan lol

Or we could just admit that the realtors, lenders, and investors milking people dry and exploiting every law, ordinance and misguided government policy they could get their hands on was the problem. 

His sole objective in life coming out of the depression was for us to have a roof over our head, all the food we could eat and all the milk we could drink.  

When the entire national market has been breast-fed government steroid milk for going on 12 years now, it’s no surprise that even the last places to recover from the 2008-2010 crash have finally now fully recovered and are appreciating.

Plus...Not sure which HML you're talking to...as most are eager beavers to lock down a rookie flipper at 3 points 15% interest and start the milking

Those people will milk it as long as they can.