There are even PHd's out there who are misusing statistics badly.

The BRRRR strategy can definitely be misused because people often don't hit that 70 or 75% mark.

The fridge we never had a problem with, but with the range and dishwasher, had problems due to tenant misuse, so we now have service contracts on them, and if something comes up, the service company gets called.

Popular social-media platform Facebook may have gotten even more popular this week as founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg testifies to Congress about the company's potential misuse of user data and privacy: Its stock price actually increased."

Until then stop faulting the person who own's the stuff you're renting when you don't pay your rent,  or mis-use their stuff.      

I never underwrite using the CAP rate ... in fact, the only time I have any curiosity about the CAP rate is when I am thinking about selling a property (and am trying to determine how much someone will pay).CAP rate is a dangerously misused metric which is far to frequently batted about as though it has significance beyond being the inverse of a P/E ratio for a business/property at a point in time.

But it's far too valuable a vehicle to abandon just because a few misbehaving individuals have misused this critical real estate consulting tool.

Fraud for Profit aims not to secure housing, but rather to misuse the mortgage lending process to steal cash and equity from lenders or homeowners.

In addition you should require tenants to be responsible for repairs within $50-$75 AND you should be charging a fee if they schedule a call with you for items which are caused by operator error (faulty appliance... when it’s just unplugged)Some one here posted that the Tenant should be replacing it because they used it last... and your obviously seeking advice so good on you... but certainly that is bad advice, you need to know the difference of when the tenant should be responsible .... if items break because they have run their life expectancy YOU are responsible as the landlord for the cost of replacement, if your tenant breaks it or misuses it prematurely, it’s the Tenants responsibility.

Almost every investor of any size uses the leverage of OPM.I understand Mr Ramsey is going after the 80% that abuse/misuse credit and dig a hole.