It was painful.

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

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.

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.

I have become interested in signal family rental to supliment my income when retire in the next 10 yrs.

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.

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.

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.

It's damn very facsinating and good for us the investor, but same time is also signaling, hot = good time to sell ; and to re-assess.