We paused to help my father in law work a flip, and get that sold.

But it does give pause on a social policy level.

Does this give anyone pause when negotiating such contractual agreements?

Now let me pause for just a minute so you might have some kind of understanding of my background so you decide if I am worth listening to or not.  

i bet they put a pause on all mortgages for those that need it.

Let me pause there for a moment, from now on the training, the books, the seminars, the mentoring from all, literally ALL OF IT, it's embodied in my use of the word "guru".

As the market cycle has run on, the institutions have gone further out on the risk spectrum and started to buy core-plus and value-add...right now most institutional investors are on pause (per various sources) so may be a good time to get into the value-add space.

You bought a lot of places in a short period of time and then ran out of reno and down payment money-that was the first place when you should have hit the pause button (well before you ran out of the money). 

@Troy Hebert two top risks for me are a) over paying in a hot market (my agent who has 30yrs in this market tells me demand this summer is highest since 2006, which gives me pause) and b) writing off the investment.

That's why we've paused on multi-family value-adds and shifted our focus to developments.