In retrospect I probably should have gone for it.

I was thinking that it would be possible to find a place without a serious marketing campaign, but in retrospect that was naive.

In retrospect, I wish we had a timeline clause in there as the contractor too forever to get done but it all worked out in the end.

In retrospect, they were all overpriced by 30% and while I eventually sold 1,  my commission amounted to minimum wage with all the time I wasted. 

In retrospect, I probably should've hired a GC with this large of a project but it was so hard for me to accept paying an additional $5-10K to use a GC.  

Life does not have a reset button, though, so when this happens the only way out is to work your way out, get creative if needed, and figure it out ... this is lucky in a lot of ways in retrospect, because it is working your way out of these type of situations where you learn and grow as an investor and as a person, and gain the confidence and knowledge to take on bigger projects ... sorry newbies out there, you aren't going to get that second hand by reading about it on BP; you have to get your hands dirty, get yourself beyond the point of no return, and figure out a way to work your way through it.

I had given them a 5* review, because it wasn't such a big deal with the check out - even though in retrospect I Wished I hadn't.

In retrospect, its easy to blame someone for what went wrong. 

In retrospect, I probably could have got a better deal, but because of how my units are set up, I knew they would bring great rental value.

I did not get offended by you calling me a child so you're good because it's all business and to accomplish 48 deals in 2 years (24 months) I purposely find partnerships to wholesale with people who have capital and know something about or have experience with wholesaling because at the end of the day a partnership has to make sense but I know that I am able to find leads so my partner(s) put up the down payment and I find a buyer. for this property in Baltimore, I got it on my birthday (08/10/99) and I literary found two interested buyers in 3 days so I know what I am capable of and my partners also finds deals as I do so I use my partner(s) time to help me get more things done and I have no problem splitting profits so in all retrospect 48 can be accomplished in under two years because its not only me working.