Paying top dollar for a property and probably not getting much, if any, equity at the time of purchase doesn’t help those margins either..Part of me wants to be okay with lower expense estimates, given the fact that they’ve got data to back up average vacancy rates (below 3%), maintenance (below 4%), average lease time (5 years), but at the same time I have to remind myself that these buy and holds are long term, and my cynicism says Murphy’s law is unavoidable!

Property Managers and their fees are an almost unavoidable part of building a real estate portfolio.

They are almost unavoidable around here.

The HOA's are unavoidable in Maui but typically pricier and higher risk (erosion) with oceanfront.

Since I've taken over, they send me "demand emails" for silly things like the sprinklers pointing in the wrong direction (which can be adjusted when and if they see this/ and could be from their dogs or children), emergency texts  - requests for ME to  pay the "excessive water usage" charge on their water bill -  in Vegas, now unavoidable for homes that haven't yet been converted to desert landscaping, and the latest one - "have your landscaper address the mushroom growth" problem, which just sprouted up due to heavy rains and the property being in the shade. 

But probably unavoidable if we dont want to take the chance of another lockdown or outbreak effecting a plant somewhere for some item. 

One issue that is mostly unavoidable is the closing costs if you choose to finance, since a lot of these costs are fixed and not variable based on the loan amount, so you will inevitably pay what seems like a high amount on closing costs on these low loan balance / property value properties. 

They are unavoidable.

Higher or lower down payment has a significant effect on cash flow.Still math is math and there are some unavoidable realities.

We’d love to avoid the drama, and will as much as possible, but sometimes it’s unavoidable and you just try to make it quick I guess.