It’s more akin to practicing law than any of the false equivalents that people like to make when comparing real estate to other industries that have been disrupted by technology.

In my case, at the end of their lease when I wanted to show the property to prospective long term tenants, the tenant gave me all kinds of grief about 'invading her privacy' and 'disrupting her life' even though I told her at the beginning of the lease that this was our procedure and I made every attempt to 1) give 48 hr lead times, when typically I would only give 24, and 2) blocked/scheduled showings for 1 day per week and 1 weekend day away from dinner time/church times, etc. maybe this was just the person I was dealing with though...- vet the tenant exactly as you would for a normal tenant.

While it might just be my personal bias, moving into a neighborhood with a lot of construction wouldn't appeal to me as a renter as I'd have to deal with disruptions, dirt/mud, noise. 

I recommended in the feedback on the vote that if the owners of ODC and Disrupt were really serious in their strategy and committed, they should fund the majority of this pref equity (put their money where their mouth is). 

Tenant turnover is the most expensive part of the investment cycle and most disruptive to your performanceThere will always be demand in areas where families want to raise their children so the appreciation will be relatively stable and the rents will be able to increase almost every yearBanks like to loan on these properties as they are considered much lower riskI know that it doesn't meet your current goals, but it happens faster than you think.

Local Legislation, tenant pool quality, tax legislation, natural disasters, job market growth, saturation of real inventory, and real estate market disruptions through innovation are a few of the things that you cannot control.

Evictions are only disrupted if the landlord accepts payments after an eviction suit is underway.The short of it is that a "mandated" pay-in-full, all or nothing policy caused more trouble than it's worth for our customers.

@Nick Moore and Account Closed, I get what you are saying, but if one post that is satire-based would have disrupted your entire real estate strategy and thrown you off course to quit, I think that's not the post's issue, it's how you feel about what you know at the time.

Realtors have yet to be disrupted by technology, but many are trying.

Some posters in the past had pointed to financial services as a future growth engine for Boston and this I am not so sure about, unless they mean low cost fin tech and insurance company disruption / innovation.