They focus on neighborhoods where they can turn volume becasue they are working off of low margins.

Everyone's books were open with their costs and profit margins, to make it such that everyone wasn't gunning for themselves.

Its not the same margins we're getting on the cabins. 

We made a bet: be okay with no (or negative) margins on cleaning and let high quality reviews pay dividends years later.It’s paying off. 

The margin for error in these ultra-leveraged, low-equity plays is razor thin — and we’re now seeing what happens when reality sets in. 

This formula is the Profit Margin Formula that accounts, for 99.99%, of everything.   

Would you rather have 3 properties operating at 5% margins or one property operating at a 15% margin.  

It's one thing to gamble with your own assets, but entirely another to gamble with someone else's money just because they trust you when it could have life-altering consequences for them.If she's going to lend to you, I would recommend that she be in first position only with a healthy margin of safety (equity cushion) and then seller-finance whatever property to you.

Rural properties with minimal comps are risky so it would be a good idea to bugger a lot more room to the profit margin.

Can you bump your margins up enough to cover that over and above LTR?