It will make it harder to get loans in the future and hamper your DTI ratio until it is paid.If you look at the value one-to-one, for every dollar invested in real estate you are (unless you invest in crazy bad areas/markets) almost guaranteed 2 cents in appreciation, 10 cents in cashflow, 1-5+ cents (variable) in tax benefits, and likely greater gains too on home run deals.

The debt you take out will hamper your ability to obtain financing for investing and the education you receive will not make or break your investing career

Originally posted by @Matt Shields:Despite that the banks and the government claim a crash can't happen again, not much has changed, except that the large banks crushed competitors and guaranteed their bailouts by depositors through Dodd-Frank. to be fair, DF also put some default liability on the seller side of systemization, it put the hamper on the derivatives market of RE, and its unlikely that the auto industry will simultaneously get obliterated, and not all the banks got bailouts, some went away and for the ones that did get help it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows the fed made it painful. no one is claiming a crash can't happen again.

So far being able to screen has not been that hampered, but hard telling what will happen in the future.

I know that will seriously hamper your business growth, but it's really 'sunken' money if you gotta pay $4k to get back $25k (and it won't be 25k anyway).IMHO you are really looking at plowing $47k into this project, 22k down, 25k remodel.  

Tell them they need to smoke OUTSIDE the building or you will be taking action against them and if there's an eviction on their record it will hamper their ability to rent in the future.

I was in no danger but that sure hampered my abilities and I took a RE vacation for many years!

Given that our collection efforts have been greatly hampered, I'd say that shows that people are doing pretty well all things considered.

An active probate wil not, in most states, hamper a foreclosure.

Also, a buyer might request the issue to be remedied, which could hamper closing.Sell to wholesaler:Selling to the wholesaler as-is was more discreet and no hassle with repair requests.I put my contact info on the public record when I bought the property, so I received unsolicited postcards in the mail from local wholesalers.