We bought 5 houses from Hubzu this year...probably tracked about 50 that we offered on, the irritating part is the repeated weekly auction for the same property, month after month,  there is one property that has been auctioned every week now for over three month.

Was a little irritated that she didn't follow the procedure (call my business line and leave a VM which I will return.) and instead called my cell (for emergency issues that don't require Police, EMS, or Fire) during dinner.

Don't count on the seller to do your figuring, that'll make you very poor, very quickly.)The suggestions to insist upon the schedule E or the tax returns are interesting- most investors can figure out what a building needs(in terms of capex and operating expenses) and what the rents and vacancy rate should be(as those are functions of area, the economy, curb appeal, management skill, and so on,) so if I were selling a 10 unit and a buyer insisted upon my seeing any part of my tax return, I'd consider that buyer to be an irritant and I'd find one who was capable of doing their own proper due diligence.

You'll just irritate them and spoil your future chances if doing business later.Go track open probates and contact the PR's who have big problems that you can help resolve.

I'd love to pick their brain"The irritating truth is that private money is private for some really good reason, and you have to put in some work to draw it out.

My firm nor any of our clients will ever trade with them.I will mention one other idea that tends to be irritating.  

When we resell and calculate the annual IRR it's usually pretty phenomenal.The other (safer but not so sexy) exit strategy is that as the value of the property increases, we could change the strategy to a fixed income weolse by getting a loan from the bank that is based on the new higher valuation and would allow us to repay the jeonse tenant and get a weolse tenant in there.

But it irritates me that I am basically giving all these upgrades away because my house would be cheaper than all the unimproved ones.Unrelated note--, I listed with a realtor instead of selling FSBO for the first time in a while.  

The Community Reinvestment Act had as much to do with the 2008 crash as Larry Bird had to do with the  Bird Flu. 

Plush padding adds to the sound absorption and every little bit counts.Nothing more irritating than platform shoes walking across a hardwood floor.