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.

In retrospect, the best move may have been to not renew the cat owner's lease, vacate the unit, fix it up, and sell with 1 vacant unit or at least one unit with month to month tenant.

There is an interesting article below that is focused on REITs but has some good analysis that actually argues the effects may be nation wide, and also has some good data on the apartment markets supply and demand fundamentals aside from the effects of flooding:https://seekingalpha.com/article/4102880-quantifyi...I still remember distinctly that I was in a Marshall Reddick "seminar" in early 2006 and he had a bunch of guys that were scaling up out of state in Mississippi, that were trying to say how great Hurricane Katrina had been for them since their property prices skyrocketed afterwards ... in retrospect, the supply shock to that market from the hurricane temporarily covered up some deeper supply and demand fundamental issues that would later resurface in a big way, as we all know. 

In retrospect, I am glad the deal fell through --though i lost close to $1200 in due diligence money, appraisal fees and inspections that I had done before the loan was rejected. 

I've been thinking the same, actually I'm closing now on a REO house in which in retrospect I should have done things a bit different.

In retrospect I could have easily made something work.

In retrospect anyone who got into real estate investing 5 years ago looks like a genius.

In retrospect I probably could've put it under contract and wholesaled the property myself even at a distance. 

In retrospect it wasn't a big deal because we had a Class A location so it was easy to lease back up.