You bought the property expecting passive income. Six months in, you are answering tenant messages at 11 PM, chasing late rent on weekends, and spending your lunch break calling plumbers. That is not passive. That is a second job you did not plan for.
Most first-time landlords do not fail because the property was a bad investment. They fail because nobody warned them how much operational work sits between buying a unit and actually collecting income from it. The daily grind of self-managing eats through motivation faster than any vacancy or repair bill ever could.