If you live your life based on other people's opinions you risk being miserable because anyone who says that type of thing probably is. 

The Board has too much power, usually makes expensive and stupid decisions on repairs and maintenance, can change rules on whether rentals are allowed or not with enough votes, and can make your life miserable if they don't like tenants in their units. 

Even if I lose all my money and fail miserably, I will still have my rental portfolio providing cashflow and can go back to a regular job.Hope this makes sense!

Maybe it's because the price points are so low and the properties are in such bad condition it puts them in miserable moods? 

Some people are sue happy, and you don't want to give them a good legal reason to come after you and make your life miserable!

I don't feel nowhere near as bad about losing money when it is my fault, but it is a miserable and long-lasting feeling when you find that someone you trusted lied to you and stole or misappropriated your money and lived high-on-the-hog (whatever that means) with your money.Very few people in this world ever perform as promised!

It also looks like they shorted me on the payoff although without the closing docs (not provided), it is hard to tell where the shortfall occurs.All in all, a miserable experience and writing this as a heads up to anyone else who has to deal with them.

I’ve been miserable for years in my career.

The commute was miserable, I was miserable.

True data is to collect EVERYONE that does DMM and see how many people are successful with it.You ONLY hear from the people that make it because no one will openly report how miserably they failed.