I realized this again when we had a traveler cancel her lease about a week before moving in.

To make a long story short, for one property you are not going to save $ in the long run and realize materials can take 6-16 weeks to arrive. 

Yes, I realize it was the first time, that is why I would cover the cost in an effort to be a good landlord and not discourage my tenants from reporting future issues.

I realized I hadn't thought about it, but it will likely be working professionals, students, or families.

I didn't realize that about syndications. 

You could lose months or years and still not resolve the problem or realize you cannot do what you wanted. 

While these deals were successful, I realized that the cost of using hard money significantly ate into my profits.

She jumped into the BRRR method and found some unexpected challenges, but also some great successes.When I started out, I realized that having a solid network was more valuable than any textbook could teach me.

Go search the topic "Lifestyle Asset University" here on Bigger Pockets and you will see a longer thread with a lot of opinions (most are not members) but still worth a read as there are a half a dozen paid members from our group who have commented on that thread.We were formerly called Lifestyle Asset University, but I didn't realize that you couldn't use the word University in your company name here in Utah so we changed our name to Vodyssey. 

It also requires different reporting of that separate interest expense on the K-1 each year so the partners know they have the obligation of tracing that interest expense to however the partner used the distributed proceeds.I typed all this up and realized Mr Brooks has left the building and posted this 6 months ago, but hopefully someone else will find this useful!