I think most here will tell you to buy a rental and I agree, but if you're very risk adverse, early repayment a great thing too.

If at any time owner does not authorize necessary repairs or adjustments that affect the well being and or safety of person, or if manager determines at any time that for any reason, continued representation of owner may adversely affect the reputation of manager, manager may unilaterally terminate this agreement by giving owner 60 days written notice prior to first day of the month.

If you just want to contribute one that you hear frequently and what you do to overcome it, we will create a list. 

All I needed to do was overcome #3.

There are lots of other properties you can find without those hurdles to overcome.

If I'm understanding correctly, you've managed to overcome the financial & market research hurdles (congrats!

Taxes are tough on LI, you’ll get high rent but you really have to purchase right to overcome taxes.

I want to learn how to have a reasonably good estimate of repair and upgrade costs so I can do post-renovation comps for them.Knowing it's tough to overcome, I'd also like to learn how to deal with the challenges presented by squatters who refuse to leave rentals

Now that I have found BP I feel that through networking and just talking to people that I will be able to overcome this challenge.

Unfortunately, there is no one way to overcome some of the challenges.