It's more of the financing (and process) as we've heard 203k can be a pain.

I know it’s a pain, but periodic property checks can help mitigate this kinda thing.  

It was painful.

If you give any credence to this type of response, you're in for a long painful real estate investing experience. 

As i said, he isn't wrong, "IF" there was an option to just save up a few hundred thousand and buy that property cash with zero mortgage, yes it is "safe" in the manner that you can screw up and be horrible at finding tenants, managing the property and just overall life as a real estate investor, because there isn't a mortgage payment forcing you to feel the pain of failure monthly.

Sprinkler systems are a pain to deal with, in terms of maintenance (inspections etc) and risk of flooding during winter freezes and tenants accidentally triggering them.

So, we have dealt with this before but only in Florida and its a bit of a pain in the butt when both parties won't sign the release and cancellation.

Rent Collection can be one of the biggest pain points while trying to manage a mobile home park.We have a few rules when it comes to rent collection that allows us to collect at a higher rate than the industry average.Rules of Rent Collection1.

Seems completely reasonable to me and if someone isn’t able to do that then they’re either a scammer, not a serious buyer or seller, or just a pain to work with so I dodged a bullet either way.

A pain until you can become on active non-reporter.