It’s the closing costs and escrow that I’m slowly becoming aware of as far as painful lol.Just another reason to eventually just buy all cash and NOT refinance.

It could be a giant pain to figure how much of that bulk purchase went to each property, especially if they did just 2 units out of 15 at one property, 1 unit out of 20 at another, and then 3 units and a wall of a 4th at a 10 unit property, etc, etc.

Feel your pain! 

Using your IRA is more of a pain than you think it will be.

It's a painful experience. 

Some stuff like flooring is possible as they just move everything to one side, install on the other and then reverse but its a pain for the crew.Larger renovations (e.g. new floor tiles or new bathroom) means the tenant has to stay out of that space for at least a day, usually more.

i dont know "when" if 2020 is right or not but i do personally think that these mega plex luxury buildings are going to feel some serious pain the problem is that theres still so much capital floating around trying to find yield that even if they take a big haircut on price or large vacancy ... there will still be appetite for the riskone thing that could put a big change in the market and probably not talked about as much is the Millennials will stop wanting to live in a box and will start wanting to move into a house.... suburbs that have been basically looked down upon will find itself going thru a renaissance we are already seeing suburbs starting to get things like trendy coffee shops, art centers, etc to make them more geared toward millennials ... this will continue and i think the "city living" in metros that are not nyc sf will see an influx to places i know what you are thinking "ok Alex sure... but what will be the catalyst will be for this change in behavior?"

Believe me when I say that I feel your pain.  

I'd like to save him that pain).

FSBOs are a pain in the arse.