As Tom Hopkins taught me, "The pain of change is forgotten once the benefit of change is realized."

I used to think of the army of Guru Graduates as a real pain in the tuchus as they often mess up good potential investment opportunities when they couldn't close on deals that they had first mover advantage on (for a long variety of reasons, most of them involving unrealistic leverage).

Only time it's a pain is when I'm using bluetooth in the car and use voice commands to dial from my car.

Enforcing the lease is a huge pain.

Is it because of the pains of renting 4 separate units, implying more vacancies, more work/property manager fees to keep them rented?

What do I do if the old owner is a pain, wants thousands, or worse refuses to sell and wants to be stupid like drop a fence down the center of the drive?

With this, you get 13 months of rent revenue for every 12 months of expenses Your tenants have an easier and less painful experience coming up with 2 weeks of rent at a time instead of saving for the first of the month and letting that rent payment cash burn a hole in their pockets (or accumulate during the month and going towards another bill)If they don't come up with a 2 week payment, they might only get a half of a month behind instead of a full month.

Approx. how much would it cost to convert to central heating and how much of a pain is it?

Banks look for who will close, the least pain to deal with and of the buyers who will close who has the highest net.

Actually, I have gotten several good listings over the years from people who had houses that I couldn't buy for whatever reason.On the LLC question - I had one at one time and found it to be a real pain in the butt, so I canceled it.