21 Times When Real Estate Investing Is Actually The Worst

1. When you visit your rental property and realize your tenant is a hoarder.

2. When the government passes new legislation that makes it harder for real estate investors to do business.

3. When you’re walking through a foreclosure and the property is a significantly more disgusting than you were expecting.

4. When you’re at an open house for a potential investment property, and you run into one of your competitors.

5. When your CPA is trying to explain the benefits and tax implications of using a Self-Directed Roth IRA over a traditional 401K retirement plan.

6. When you buy a property in a “War Zone” neighborhood, just because it was cheap.

7. When you visit your rental and discover that your tenants have trashed the place and moved out in the night… and you’re left to deal with the ensuing carnage.

8. How it feels when you hand the keys to your first rental house over to a property manager.

9. When you’re trying to sell a property and someone offers you 50% of your asking price.

10. When your variable rate mortgage starts ticking up with rising interest rates.

11. When you pay $30 for a real estate book, read it cover-to-cover, and realize you could have gotten the same information for free on BiggerPockets.

12. When you get home from working on a vacant rehab project and realize you forgot to …read more