West Mobile, Saraland, and Midtown are starting to boom, however, pick the wrong street and the returns are extremely diminished. 

Settlement will occur throughout the life of a structure, although in most cases it will diminish over time.

It diminishes my tenant pool which you may find with Submetering the water bill.

I would be making less money while the property value diminishes at the same time. 

You hit a point of diminishing returns with SFR on price points, and that price point is above it in Omaha.  

For me, diminishing 'influence' is just a de-motivator as far as publishing goes.

Omg there's a bunch of testosterone floating around on this thread.

As to the lender accepting payment from the new owner and how it diminishes the lender's ability to enforce the due on sale clause: I'd expect it to be easier to do with a bank with a brick and mortar where a person can make a payment by going through the drive thru.

Once you've experienced the successful rental of your first house hack, this fear diminishes.

After perhaps the first 500-1,000 hours of studying real estate and posting to the forums, I think the diminishing marginal returns on the 1,001st hour begin to take effect.