I passed on so many opportunities in the Berwyn market where I invest that were screaming deals in retrospect! 

In retrospect, it wouldn't have been bad to have looked a little bit longer

Paul you've got that right, on all accounts in retrospect. 

Every time we drove past that house the running joke was that we feel sorry for the poor sap that buys that place.With all the travel to Indy for work and to Rushville for renovation work I think that something snapped in my wife (in retrospect I wonder why it took so long).

In retrospect, I was merely pontificating about the prospects for the future unaware--until recently--that I could have profited and still can profit.

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I'm in agreeance with Beau on this; the fact is, as a rental property owner you are in a service industry, and considering tax implications of receiving those large sum payments up front, it could in retrospect cost you more (time + money).

In retrospect, yes.

In retrospect it was totally not worth it, lol.

and Andy D, retrospectively I should have got rid of them a long time ago, but I was always chasing rent and would get it near the end of the month in full, so didn't want them to not pay once they knew I was evicting them....so many lessons learned the hard way.