or 3) suffer a really low ROI with a high down payment?

If your in the 2nd half of your mortgage then you will be having much more of your payment going to the principal but your return on equity will suffer.

Tenancy at Sufferance.

I am a CNLP with award winning landscape designs and an understanding of what flippers, BRRRR practitioners, residential/commercial property or estate owners are looking for.THE POINT: At the Garden Center I have some tough plants that survived the b-lo winter and I can push for half off.

On the flipside, if the economy is suffering in an area, you’ll see “For Sale” and “For Lease” signs every where, businesses and homes will be boarded up, and people will be packing up to go find a place with better jobs and a higher quality of life.

More sizable plantings.  

Just a few pains to suffer, so weigh the benefits, perhaps greater protection to liability (might not too) tax advanatages with deductions of business related expenses, marketing pluses in branding your business, and you might enjoy saying "I own my comapny"

That said, when stories like this hit the news, believe that Mortgagees and Mortgage Servicers go do some double checks to make sure they don't suffer the same fate.

If you suffer a loss on your primary residence, it is a personal loss not a taxable deduction.

I think you'll have a difficult time proving the plants died as a direct result of tenants neglect seeing that it is now three years after the fact.