.#16 - The couple I inherited in one side of the Belton duplex recently both found jobs and instead of moving out have paid for a month rent and I've agreed to a month-to-month trial for them so I have some unplanned income coming from that unit (it is in dire need of remodel but the current tenants are content with it). 

If we need to make an unplanned trip to take care of our property, it will be expensive.

During the time that I am looking for a buyer, I would have cash flow to cover any expenses be it planned or unplanned coming in from the tenant while patiently waiting for a buyer.Of course that's not a reliable way of creating long term wealth but I think its a vehicle i could use in order to reach the ideal duplex or multi family properties that I would want to keep as anchor properties.  

We had to reco tact Evolve to fight for full refunds for our guess as was a unplaned failure with our unit.

And, the more they know about the place, the less high cost and unplanned or surprise repairs they have to spend time and money fixing when they didn't budget to do so.

No exceptions that I know about (except the unplanned job change above) and you don't want to commit loan fraud. 

I take it there were unexpected/unplanned repairs needed on the property.   

Because I bought the property a while back, it still became a good deal with the appreciating market, however, this was an unplanned expense that put extra financial pressure on my life.

$8k of unplanned plumbing.

(Though in retrospect I'm not sure why I panicked because we had plenty of cash from the sale and savings; I think it was the general fear of unknown and unplanned).I agree with what everyone else has already stated:  continue to learn and to network locally.