Just closing costs can be sticker shock for some.

The whole reason you like cash flow real estate is because the tenant pays your mortgage for you and that'll continue to happen whether the sticker price of the building goes up or down 10% in a year.If you like the investment thesis for cash flow real estate and really want to "buy and hold for the long term" then it won't matter whether you buy at today's price or next month at 98 cents on the dollar or next year at 110% of today's price or 2 years from now at 75 cents on the dollar.

It isn't the sticker price that has the greatest impact on your profit/cash flow. 

At first, I did some of the demo work on my own after receiving sticker shock from some of the contractor bids (I grew up in construction, built my own home, and my father is a contractor).  

I’ve seen plenty of foreclosures with winterized stickers done in summer months that still froze in the winter.

Closing was a nightmare and sticker shock with crazy fees and a last minute jump by 2% interest that they didn’t mention the title company caught it.  

In fact, I have a sticker on my truck that reads: "I Chase Sunsets, Not Paychecks". 

PE came out 1-2 days after my tenants called and slapped a warning sticker on the boat. 

Contracts are brutal sticker shock but seem more and more worth it every year.The best help I found was through a FB contact last year and he was a one man side business kind of shop, sadly he is no longer doing removal.

In my area, the vast majority of the time when a house is winterized there are stickers indicating that with a date on each fixture as well as the boiler etc.