As for making mistakes, that is unavoidable.

It is unavoidable.

But, will their next landlord listen to their story and believe it was unavoidable?

In Atlanta, I usually assume 8.3% of rents for vacancy.Property Management - There is an unavoidable cost to manage a rental: tenants must be screened; leases must be signed; rents must be collected; maintenance requests must be managed, etc.

So too has fallen the "truth" that insane, punishing rush-hour traffic is inevitable, unavoidable and simply the price of living in a great metropolitan area.

, there is an unavoidable cost in both time and money to:screen and approve tenantshold lease signingsreceive monthly payments and handle non-paymenthandle repair requestsmanage lease renewalsI'd suggest 8-10% of annual gross rents as a reasonable annual management expense. 

I am hearing that because of the Covid situation it is taking longer for the local Municipality to process all the paperwork (30-45 days) but I don’t think that that is unavoidable in any situation.

Hey Patrick,There's an unavoidable tradeoff between initial equity and NWROI.

Or is it unavoidable?

I agree with Glen, if you are willing to accept the risk (and minimize it as much as possible) and you are willing to put up with unavoidable headaches you can be very successful.