Is the Only Way to Negotiate a Lower Price with Builders is to have a pain in the butt inspector find a laundry list of problems and meaningless in the grand scheme defects to compel them to cut their numbers to move to acceptance and closing?

I know it is painful when you have bern decreasing the rent already.  

I’m most interested to learn how people in the local area are picking their investments and how much pain they are willing to endure per unit. 

If I may ask, which aspects are the most painful, to the point that you're exiting the market?

It seems like this would be more on seller side.It’s not a deal breaker for the buyer, just a pain and occasionally a time suck, it absolutely can be an issue when you sell, not something that can’t be overcome but something that can cost time, money, effort, which again is why I’d just much rather be in condos than multi family all things equal, the per unit savings aren’t even that big in large swaths of D.C.

Sometimes if it seems the customer is going to be more of a pain that we want to deal with, we can add significant amounts to the quote. 

I know it's a pain to pay the extra couple hundred dollars for re-inspection, but it's always worth it to double check and confirm on your end.

i could see this being a huge pain.

After twenty years of running projects, we have completed every job we have undertaken (even the painful ones) and we have never had any loan payment issues.

Time is running out Wife and 3 Children LIVE in the home and want to CONTINUE to live in the home as the Children are entering or in High School(a painful time to have to move or relocate for all) - YES lots of emotions all around involved.