I know that any early cash outlay will diminish the IRR of a long-term investment significantly.

Like everyone else here has said, once you're more established and successful the negative comments will diminish.

You need to have a lot of money to put down, but the upfront capital diminishes your potential COC return.

Not to diminish what you just accomplished because it's pretty awesome, but it just blows my mind that you had to jump thru the hoops you did in order to reverse what the eviction judge had absolutely no right to do in the first place.

There's a diminishing return after some point.I actively manage them.

I think what we're talking about is the law of diminishing returns.

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Once you get to the level of investor that works on investing full time, the numbers diminish quickly.

If we bug them too much, it's increasing their expenses and diminishing our returns.

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