Some on here would frown on credit as a kind of reserve but to my mind it is better to borrow than to lose your investment (unless of course in retrospect your investment is itself a loser).   

There were so many red flags with these guys, but of course that is looking in retrospect, with the high pressure sales tactics employed and the lucrative numbers, it is easy to to get caught up.Think about this, if you have a independent and vetted management company ready to take over your management, they would be extremely vested in receiving it in rent ready condition, as long as they did not have a financial incentive to do the exact opposite in the first place. 

In retrospect, I might have gone that way.For the identifier of sheet size, I just took a sharpie and put a K and a Q on the sheet tags.

I just wanted to put a disclaimer, I put it in this category because I thought that rehabbing was the closest thing to renovating but in retrospect it probably belongs more in the general category.

In retrospect, I should have stuck to my initial offer of 60K, knowing it needed foundation, roof, and electrical.

So the seller didn’t even want to consider it…that’s now a bit more obvious in retrospect!  

Although it has still been a good deal financially, in retrospect I should have negotiated a better price.  

Similar situation for me, renting out 1st property vs. selling it, and good decision in retrospect in terms of building equity and wealth in general.

Having someone quarantine for 14 days in their room was in retrospect nuts.

In retrospect, the furniture was there for storage purposes-I should have insisted they be removed from the property so I wouldn't be liable for any damage.