You will never lose more money than you will skimping on these two trades in your portfolio.

Meanwhile, the assets lack fundamentals, and rarely trade for remotely close to where they appraise.

But they don't have any foreign currency risk investing in Mexico or the Dominican Republic either because properties there are traded in US dollars as well.Counterintuitively, this is another advantage for countries like Mexico and the Dominican Republic.

When I started trading stocks in 1988 commissions were 4%.

From my perspective, when I started house hacking, I really enjoyed learning about all of the trades, but as you said-  it becomes harder to do all those things while building.  

Some may want to move and then you'll be left with an older, used mobile home which you may have to fix up or trade in for a newer, used mobile home depending on the condition. 

I'm seeing renovated inventory sit, then trade well below list in a large portion of the ATL metro. 

Yes, there are some trade offs, but also some great benefits.

I'm a specialty insurance underwriter by trade; therefore analyzing deals and numbers is my jam.  

Given equity is always more expensive than debt, in my view the additional finance charges were a good trade off.