It's incredibly frustrating because you cannot control the activity of what the other landlord do and who they put in their units, yet those tenants can cause problems for your tenants and make your life miserable.

This guy pays his wife alimony and child support, but she's shady and has been making his life miserable and he wants to make sure he's covered, since she might come after him for more money.

To make matters worse, the window blinds (cheap plastic blinds that I believe were installed by the builder probably 15 years ago) are also very difficult to close, which makes it more difficult to deal with the windows.We met with the landlord today, and explained that last year we "lived with" the windows, but were fairly miserable struggling with opening and closing them during the hot summer months in Michigan.

It'd be quite miserable if one showed up after the fact, but I'll deal with that alligator when it shows its head.

It takes awhile to learn effectively, and you will fail miserably without the ability.Negotiating with sellers, another advanced skill.

It was usually miserable finding recent similar properties.

The project is left in the midth of it, the property looks miserable, went down in value since the time he bought it.

On the other hand, he has made YOUR life miserable to the point that you can't even live in your house.

So, every week, I'm stuck with the A/C suddenly blowing hot air instead of cold...spending a miserable night...until they fill up the Freon the next day. 

I've had many 5 figure marketing campaigns fail miserably.