Many people look for THE BEST "diet," and when they don't see results after a week or two or three, they become Internet junkies and switch from the low-fat diet to the low-carb diet, to paleo, to ketogenic, to vegan... and ultimately get frustrated and give up.

Insurers would charge more for high risks (fat, smoke).

We have programs that we readily pay your; grocery bill, rent, cell phone, internet, spending money, health insurance, Rx coverage, day care AND to boot not only do you NOT have to pay diddly-squat in income tax's that the rest of us subsidize (pay) for you but we even send you a big fat check each year if you have kids. 

Make sure your investment property supports itself in a way in which it does not matter the external conditions.Here's a dumb analogy that I like to illustrate the situation:The way I see it is if your cow gives you milk every day, you will not care how fat it is, however if you need to slaughter it to eat, you will definitely want it to be fat and that may not be the case.All the best to you!

Where have they trimmed the fat?

I stay on top of MB-> AB for revenue real estate but maybe one day I’ll be old(er) & fat(ter) and relaxing in the Okanagen.

Now, even poor people are fat, waste food, have the internet, have a car, have Air Conditioning, live in bigger houses, everybody has access to electricity, gas is relatively cheap, we have an Over Supply of Oil, roads are relatively well kept, tires last longer, instead of a car going 100,000 miles they go 300,000 miles, clothing is almost free at 2nd hand stores, bundles of clothes are shipped over seas because they can't be sold here, everybody has a gadget that fits in their pocket that gives them instant access to anybody in the world by entering a phone number or email address or URL, can play 1,000s of songs, and has far more compute power than what it took to put men on the moon. 

At that point I hope you have a good fat security deposit because that’s what I would use to reimburse myself for the unpaid utilities.

Take a client to lunch in their BMW, then go to a couple closings to collect fat commission checks.

It's like the concept of "fat FIRE" which I'm trying to follow as well.