And I'm often pleasantly surprised because sometimes 'no worse than average' deals actually turn out to be good deals, in retrospect.

In retrospect, it seems like a huge waste of money that I gave up for rents!  

In fact most of them in retrospect thought it was the greatest thing ever since they never had to worry if the tenant was actually going to pay on the 1st or not.As for illicit activities, y'all are some judgmental folk if you think that anyone with a little bit of savings is inherently selling drugs. 

A lot of smart people were duped in those two situations too, not just blind consumers but also sophisticated multi millionaire investors, when in retrospect it should have been obvious to everyone that the products were actually vaporware.

Problem is, the $50k higher offer pushed it out of short sale territory, and if the bank knew about it then they'd revoke the tentative short sale approval ASAP, meaning our law breaking listing agent would in retrospect have wasted all that time she did convincing the bank of "maximum" value.

In retrospect, only the F.M. was a threat to the closing as you NEVER want to P*&% off a City official with the power to make your life miserable.  

Now Person D lives in their apartment and there have been a few disputes however mot of them were handled by the tenants themselves with conversations, I only heard bout them after the fact when another issue came up.So in retrospect, I think in my case A, B, & C were both somewhat "problem" tenants, all were a bit immature and had issues having a direct conversation with a neighbor, somewhat to be expected when renting to college students in their 20's.  

In retrospect, it was a mistake.

I was lucky, I billed them and they paid it.In retrospect, I'd measure the tank at turnover, pay the departing tenant for their fuel that they bought (use that day's price, it's the only fair way and it's how it's done when you buy and sell and property) and then charge the arriving tenant.  

In retrospect, this was my first rental and I ignored several signs of potential alarm bells.