Your job (or the stable, long-term income stream from that job, rather) is the primary asset backing most conventional mortgatges - which I think are one of the most reasonable and likely means for many newbie investors to get financing for their first few real estate investments.Basically - if you quit your job, you can't get a mortgage... which DELAYs your first investment substantially by making access to financing much more difficult or impossible, or worse will create very unfavorable financing terms and dilute your ownership.By the way, I'm NOT talking about the person who is ready to quit their job and become a full fledged entrepreneur.

In addition, the forms will let borrowers know about unfavorable features, such as prepayment penalties or increases in the loan balance.The new rule requires specific mathematical computations to disclose the borrower's and lender’s title insurance fees.

Similarly, it doesn't matter how much money can be made in a C- property if the landlord is afraid of the location and looks unfavorably on the residents of the neighborhood.

It's not like Josh has a team of people moderating posts and removing unfavorable content. 

That'd be a giant monthly  expense to you and if you ever have any vacancies that could put you in a really unfavorable position.

Living in a high income tax state, as well as a high property tax state and having an unfavorable limit on what state-level taxes you can deduct from your fed taxes affects *every* person living/owning a home in CA (investor or other), and makes leaving CA for lower tax states more appealing.

Not only is LA expensive, landlord tenant laws are unfavorable in California.

@Samuel Huang, Chris Martin is right about the regulations being a bit unfavorable in our area for STR.

One possible reason is that they are desperate and willing to accept unfavorable terms like that.

But we have the OPTION to rent it out and the let the home pay itself off should the market be unfavorable to sell.We like the flexibility of owning, the feeling of building equity (we do bi-weekly payments and extra principal so in the long term we’ll pay hundreds of thousands less in interest).