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. 

This supply constraint, coupled with steady demand, is expected to drive rent growth in the coming months.Capital Markets and Valuations: U.S. multifamily transaction volumes reached $38 billion in Q2, signaling a thaw in capital markets.

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.