The lady felt offended, I’m new to the business and don’t want to leave a bitter taste with customers.

The lady felt offended, I’m new to the business and don’t want to leave a bitter taste with customers.

Trying to think outside the box here.Maybe a simpler option would be, depending on your current loan vs. the value of the property, get a small private loan (friends, family, other investors you know) to cover the cost of the parking, maybe it might be a high rate because it would be a 2nd mortgage but it would allow you to address the issue now and you could negotiate for the 1st payment not to be until a year from now.I think there's some potential super-long-term value play buying properties without parking at a steep discount, and then waiting for the era of self-driving cars to arrive, but it's too speculative for my taste and we don't know how long or if such a future will arrive.For the next decade or two, I think you will get a better quality of tenant if you can accommodate ones with cars, vs. ones that don't have cars.

Has a bad taste in his mouth dealing with brokers and “financial advisor”.

I have one property that has all black cabinet and black stove black microwave, black refrIgerator, black everything in kitchen and it looks very modern for my personal taste :)

People may cancel a trip to France for wine tasting and go to California wine country for the "cheap" vacation.

We by accident bought an amazing house deal we flipped to our taste and with the expansion of our family after living there only 2 years we had to sell (no capital gains!).

You may or may not have gotten a true taste of downtown, but lots of renovation is going on, residential and commercial.

Deferred rehabs have put a bad taste in lenders mouths therefore it's harder to receive funding for those types of projects. 

Going too big in the beginning can stump your career and leave a bad taste in your mouth.