Even if you are a professional contractor, there is a certain point at which the returns on your work diminishes to zero.

The other type, Operates with one Tool .. because he is a hammer, and see every deal as a nail.. and every opportunity that doesn't look like a nail  will be discarded and bashed out of ignorance and of course he will exalt his NAIL and diminish the screws....

The elderly who are not mobile (diminished lung condition) or any other health conditions (high blood pressure, diabetes, immune compromising conditions such as past cancer treatment) could increase the risk.

You also have less control.Personally, I’d rather not deal with hassle of an equity partner or the diminished returns on a SFH or duplex.Also, as a new investor, you probably don’t know enough yet to play with someone else’s money (unless it’s a mortgage).

Great ideas for improving content are of diminished value if it you can’t find that content with a search warrant because the platform is substandard.

More often it will mean you have an updated $100k home which the benefits are realized in the marketing time to sell the property and the diminishing of accepting any discounts for additional updating.

You are living in a fantasy land if you think tech could go away or be reduced/ diminished and everything is just hunky-dory. 

I think Seattle's own analysis on these changes said that they expected a few hundred to a thousand additional units per year to be developed as a result of these changes,   so if seattle has about ~150K single family homes,  thats not a dramatic rate of change.Also,   Seattle's anti-landlord renter protection ordinances are going to diminish interest in this,  especially if our more aggressively / unapologetically socialist council members get their way and achieve some sort of rent control.   

Pay off the loan = 5% return year one, diminishing each year. 

That's quite a large decrease especially considering that $1 in 1982 would have the purchasing power of about $3 in today's market.One explanation could be that Interest rates were artificially low for a long time (until recently) which may have diminished the need for seller financing.