"Lies have speed - truth has endurance."

For certain investors, it's acceptable if their investments don't generate immediate cash flow during the initial years, as long as the long-term appreciation increases their wealth.For example, if you experience a negative cash flow of $2k annually for six years, that totals $144k However, if your property's value increases by $500k over the same six-year period, you're now $356k wealthier.If your primary goal is to build wealth, then enduring a few years of negative cash flow might not be that bad. 

I have a tenant who, to no fault of her own or the landlord's, has had to endure dealing with a flooded kitchen due to a broken water pipe.

Is the satisfaction from mastering this skill greater or less than the heartache and stress you may endure?

For more than a year I have been preaching to the enduring state of this and how a landlord can not rely upon the mirage on the horizon of return to "normal", it is just that, a mirage, this IS the "new normal".

For the privilege of being a tyrant of the HOA they will endure any burden that the job entails.

For J Scott...Hope you had a wonderful weekend with family and friends and a joyous time free from the misery of enduring those cold-calls!

(i.e. loud) We’d like to be far enough south that there is little chance of “enduring” a 55 degree week during the winter.

Our aim is clear: empower couples to attain financial freedom while building enduring and thriving bonds because we firmly believe that a strong partnership is the key to success, be it in real estate or in life.

Fine by me, I know what pain feels like and I'd much rather endure the pain of turning over a thousand stones to find a single deal than to have a thousand deals burying me under a mountain of stones.Even in this strong market and with well underwritten acquisitions, we still have properties we struggle with from time-to-time for various reasons, requiring us to make difficult decisions.