The downside is that you would need to file a claim with insurance which in the long run could cause your premiums to increase.

The downside is that if the sale of the relinquished property slides, that impacts one's ability to get into a particular replacement deal.

If you are looking to take on a big down side risk in hope to hit the big up side gain don't blame others when you run into normal speed bumps.

The downside to rentals in KCMO is that you have to deal with Jackson County property taxes, Happy Homes Inspections, registering your property with the city and that it is slowly shifting to be less investor-friendly. 

The only "downside" is it falls apart at scale. 

Passive RE investment usually will have lower up and downsides, but you can go do other things while guys like me toil away.

The down side is that it was quite a distance away but at least you could jump on a train and make it a field trip.

The main downside with these is I hear they take 6 months to fund so its best to use these for post acquistion take out financing where by you use bridge/hard money/cash or other financing to acquire but then refinance into FHA paper on the back end to payoff or take out the initial money used.

The downside is obviously for writing the big check they want every major decision under the sun and consider it their deal and you the operator taking orders from them.

The downside is that you pay a fee for this expertise.