@Kevin Lisewski,  I feel your pain; same experienced few years ago with out of state investment condo.  2 days prior to close the lender 'took closer look at condo docs' and because the building over 50% rental, refused a conventional loan but would offer 9% loan available in next 2days.. which he denied was hard money.  

I feel your pain though, I think in businesses it is even more important to have a solid broker and there are very few of them around that can adequately assist a seller/buyer.

At this point now that I have a firm it's structured where it's inclusive- and it's so we don't deal with this pain point and can plan/communicate without surprise billings later. 

For example, some Landlords charge a nominal fee for the administrative cost of pet screening or creating a pet addendum.

Sense financial is a bit glitchy and a pain to setup but its better than equity trust or another custodian.

When they are used, it is a bit of a pain to make them up. 

House hacking is a pain in the ***.

Like Luke said, get to know things that are a pain for a self manager to do, and take it off of his or her hands.   

@Elizabeth Lee LA county is really a pain with transfers between entities and even deaths where the tax assessment should not increase, as painful as it is to pay a lawyer, do so, if you did everything correctly they'll know how to fight it much better than you.

Personally, I have discovered huge pains from having any paint work being done after cabinets and flooring.