If you can show you can get rents up 20%, then 12% PM fee is easier to swallow. 

If you work in a huge office for a huge company, it's easy to get swallowed alive.Where I am, in NYC, some of the big firms hire literally anyone coming out of a licensing course.

I always found that to be a very hard pill to swallow.

The galvanized pipes stopped working. 4.5K for replumbing the house (1 bathroom, kitchen, water heater and washer) plus 1K for drywall and paint...and I had just painted....Hiring contractors....without a contract that stipulates the terms of the deal.Luckily most of the mistakes I read today were 5-10K mistakes, that's easy to swallow but not ideal.

(W2 people just gasped, swallowed their dinner with out chewing, spit their mouthful of beer or coffee across the room, ...)Time?

We've seen single losses totaling more than $30,000 and what's tough to swallow is that many of these losses were avoidable.What's happening & what's the danger?

Yet, all the members would need to do would be to go look at their archives and look at the predicted gains and check if they occurred in reality and they'd find out easily that my example above is typical.There are countless people in that same situation situation and, in my humble opinion, it's about time that they swallow their pride (for having fallen for their marketing tricks) and speak up so that other people don't have to experience the same situation in the future.

I know it;s tough to swallow, but thus reall is 2012, not 1812. :) Learn to deal with it or start anorther war,Who cares?

Looking long and hard I can find deals but those quickly get swallowed up by cash buyers.

I find it hard to swallow especially when it was being marketed on zillow at $18k as being "rent ready".