I understood this to mean no trying to sell  your business or MLM.

We found ourselves wasting an obscene amount of time doing our due diligence where we doubt that the vast majority of bidders actually understood the costs involved in the rehabs.

Understood!

I would make sure however you are investing is clearly understood (see Norada search on BP). 

The city nor our architect understood the structure of the affordable housing regime that allowed this delay.2) our architect was incompetent in moving the project forward.

I used to hear it all the time, but never really understood that you need to get clear on what it is you're looking to do.

They understood, believed in, or jumped on the bandwagon at the right time for these cryptocurrencies. 

Profits do not justify their effort even with the ADU addition in this case typically not being hands off .Here is a list of things that make ADU additions a less than optimal RE investment but the value added and starting with tens of thousands negative is a big one that needs to be well understood. 1) The value added by the ADU addition is often significantly less than the cost of adding the ADU.

I hope I understood your scenario correctly.

I said the same thing when I invested in a PPR fund, that I understood the risks and accepted them.