Being a distressed seller during a downturn is not where you want to be Be more conservative underwriting – multifamily properties are priced based off their current financial performance only.

Buy if it's performing now, but not if you only like how it may perform. 

However, as you scale, you will want to start delegating these "low value" tasks to other people.

Take a picture and describe work to be performed.  

Take the top performers and see what they are offering.

This will not be our replacement plumber.My last big electrical task (former journeyman electrician) I was paying as it was going and the electrician just stopped. 

You do still have risks of course that the property will not perform, but with a solid property and business plan, those risks will be minimized.

I'm just an average joe investor compared to many on this site, but I'm an active husband, active father of 4 kids (all 7 and under), active community member, and still work a demanding performance-based full-time W2 job outside of scaling my real estate investments to where they are today. 

I appreciate the input from actual users on how well the system performs.

We're all in this real estate journey together and we ALL have properties that don't totally perform as expected.