They can get pretty time consuming as well as unpredictable.

So, don’t wait until you’ve found a great real estate deal to get started… get started today so your funds are ready to invest when you need them.Getting Off The Sidelines And Getting Your Money Working For YouIf you feel a self-directed IRA may be a great way for you to invest a portion of your retirement in things you know (rather than the unpredictable stock market)… then dive in, take some time to educate yourself on the pros and cons of a SD-IRA 

1:Stay away from short sales they are long and unpredictable.2:If you can purchase the note in a good discount and know what you doing with a good attorney on your side  than go for it and buy the non performing note.3: If you are in the business to buy those types of sales, than buy the note.

Your metric shall not be the number of dollars you're making but the ratio between NOI and actual predictable expense and unpredictable expense.

Also, I think that BRRRR investing is a smart way to mitigate risk in otherwise unpredictable economic times.

The main reason I told you so much is that the future is unpredictable and try to be prepared for whatever may happen.Always remember when first starting you should do the math analysis and try to look at your prospective properties before you make an offer or at least have a clause in the sales contract that allows you the time (usually about 10 to 15 days) to make a detailed inspection and possibly back out of the deal without a penalty that will not hurt you too much.  

Other buyers didn't do their due diligence and were underestimating repair scopeOther buyers were going to do an irresponsible mold remediation / rehab in generalMy rehab costs were coming in too high either because I was getting retail pricing from contractors (and estimating it that way on my own) and/or because a lot of that work really wasn't necessaryMold repairs are unpredictable:  Maybe it really did need to be a full interior gut, maybe it didn't need to be.I'm wasting my time even thinking about this, I submitted the numbers that worked for me, they laughed at them, and I need to move on and not look back!

Even since Google has changed their algorithm - I honestly haven't seen any negative effect in terms of the traffic that I get.The traffic tends to come in waves - and is rather unpredictable.

The rest is personal, and there's no tax reason to do it in advance of moving in.One more consideration: life is unpredictable.

It feels a bit unpredictable, a bit like gambling.