That’s where the cash flow comes into play, if this property was cash flowing $0 to some positive number a month the fluctuations in price would be easier to swallow as the investment would still be cost neutral or making money and it would be less painful to wait for the upswing in the market you would be looking for to sell and make your gains.Just my two cents

Is this a pain point for others as well?

Upgraded electrical panel and or wiring.5. new dual pain energy effiecent windows.6.

I made an "administrative" change to my late fee policy when I converted my tenants to bank deposit.

This tenant is a big time pain in the you know what.

We are considering buying a house there and want to know of the plusses and minuses of operating there: tenant pool size and quality, administrative burden from the Borough, inspections.

Find your seller's pain and amplify it. 

With that said, all of these problems actually resulted in fantastic loan terms at the time for commercial real estate borrowers -- very high LTV, very low spread/ margin, interest only for term, pro forma underwriting, etc.To give you some perspective on how we are still feeling the pain of the "go-go" CMBS era 10+ years ago...

Don't trade stocks...Now, in full disclosure I do trade stocks but lets just say I am painfully experienced at trading!

Blaming the previous administration, no matter how deserved, doesn't work if you promised to fix the damage in your first term.