For many condos, these are several hundred dollars per month, which can eat into your cash flow to the point the unit simply does not work as a rental.

I ended up just eating the loss because in my estimation the hassle of legal action was not worth the potential ROI.

With properties sitting longer on the market, interest costs are eating them up and eroding that margin.

You’d be saving a ton on labor and equipment costs that eat up most of the budget for guys who have to contract everything out.Buying raw land and improving it, clearing, adding a driveway, bringing in utilities, maybe even putting in septic, yeah, that's definitely a viable route.

Turn over costs can easily eat away even half the units annual gross rents in cashflow type area.

We are cash flowing this deal, so Interest is not eating our lunch.

Insurance costs, property taxes, and inflation are eating into household budgets.  

That’s why I said unless there’s real appreciation coming soon, this isn’t a great position to be in because the cap ex and operating costs are going to eat you alive renting a $100K home for under $1,000.

It actually came up in a meeting I had about a boutique hotel investment, and the consensus was that relying too much on Airbnb just eats into profits.While I want this to be true, the reality is that it's pretty tough with a single family home unless you really have a differentiator like a special view, location, unique design featured in a magazine etc.

With a $15K prepay penalty and about three years left, sometimes the math works out better to hold even if you’re losing a few hundred a month, especially if you can refinance once rates ease.If selling, factor in all the costs — agent commissions, closing, depreciation recapture, and the penalty — since that can eat a big chunk of your equity.