A lot of people have difficulty doing it.

I am careful to do all disclosures because lead is a serious inhalation and ingestion hazard (think children), Asbestos is handled the same way.

I have received several private mails from investors that had serious difficulties in the last downturn.

Just thinking out loud here Long DOM(days on market) typically disclose there's difficulty in closing; like lots of repairs.But don't shotgun multiple offers at the same time as it may be that two or more may accept and then you're in a pickle and have to move forward on all of them - - you can't just blow them off with "just kidding".Secondly, a 40% discount is way too steep for sight unseen. 

Houses/properties can sell but getting your hands on them is the real difficulty.

Rezoning can vary on difficulty depending upon location.

Hello BP,I've been looking around the forums and reading book after book after article after post, etc and am having difficulty bridging the gap on something.When perusing potential deals and performing quick analyses to see if the investment is really worth looking at deeper, how do you generally estimate any needed repair costs from few or no photos and without physically visiting the property?

I'm looking to jump into the SD market with a house-hack type setup, but as we all know, finding good value in SD is quite difficult. I

I've thus far always done my own taxes, and my only experience with CPAs is watching how my parents struggle with frustration at the hourly expense for any questions they have, difficulty of communication, and all the documents they have to gather, for their CPA who does taxes for them and my dad's single-person small business.

And of course they didn't close on time because of financing difficulties.