What are your biggest headaches on a day-to-day basis?
I am conducting some research and I was curious about what some of the biggest headaches commercial real estate professionals run into every day. 

Could be agents, investors or anyone else involved in the commercial real estate industry.
[{"id": "gvgcuon", "text": "This profession is a career long migraine", "replies": [{"id": "gvglrpd", "text": "Same", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "gvgr4v9", "text": "Agreed - if you\u2019re not willing to put up with the bullshit you won\u2019t last.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gvgd7t5", "text": "Brokers and tenants who don't realize that being communicative and upfront and honest will get them a much better deal than being a jerk and acting like every communication is a legal matter (looking at you big corporate tenants and big box retailers and their brokers).", "replies": [{"id": "gvgr8qw", "text": "Double so for the ones that come in acting like the 800lb gorilla", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gvgf15m", "text": "\"Hey I saw a store for rent sign, what kind of business do you think I should put in there?\"", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gvgghql", "text": "From the financing side, being the middleman between investor and lender is exhausting. In every deal there is one (or both) parties who are either 1) terrible at communication, 2) unrealistic on timing/fees/expectations, or 3) generally horrible to work with.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gvglnkm", "text": "Investor here. Tenants complaining. Investors complaining. That\u2019s pretty much it.", "replies": [{"id": "gvgrcto", "text": "Lol - it\u2019s all fun and games till the GC starts complaining about timelines and materials availability", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "gvhdr4k", "text": "Brokers complaining", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gvgskt5", "text": "Brokers that ask the listing agent to send over marketing material when it is readily available on LoopNet and Crexi. Also Costar. Fuck Costar.", "replies": [{"id": "gvhd7q8", "text": "This guy for president", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "gvhdpyp", "text": "Fuck Costar", "replies": [{"id": "gvhlosc", "text": "\\^\\^ Veep.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gvgwi87", "text": "Residential brokers thinking they can list raw land for future development and have no clue what they are doing or how to price it", "replies": [{"id": "gvhda2n", "text": "This is the reason I have a commercial brokerage. Not sure how any of those guys can make a living", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "gvhtpgi", "text": "Seems like every Tom, Dick and Sally is becoming a residential realtor where I live. Guess they are mesmerized by the established realtors posting of millions and millions of sales on social media. Record sales. I often wonder if they understand the time and expenses that go into building a successful real estate career. Real life is not instagram.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "gvifmeb", "text": "Residential agents trying to sell anything commercial it\u2019s a nightmare. You end up doing there job and your job.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gvgx1wx", "text": "The contractors not showing up. It's just a consistent baby-sitting job with multiple properties.", "replies": [{"id": "gvky447", "text": "Can you pay more? Seriously, if you can write a check to solve a problem then it really isn\u2019t a problem.", "replies": [{"id": "gvlab7q", "text": "Honestly started to think like that. I used to get 3 quotes for bigger projects and then take the cheapest one. Now I take the middle one and usually all goes well, and then I typically stick with that contractor for smaller items/ jobs", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gvh7e5v", "text": "Your research is lame", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gvh9gy6", "text": "I hate annual reconciliation for national NN tenants. I\u2019m just big enough that it\u2019s a pain but small enough that it\u2019s just me handling everything.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gvhj6vq", "text": "Residential brokers no knowing any information and submitting a laughable LOI's on those shitty template forms. \n\nClients keep countering when they should take the deal before then end up with a goose egg.", "replies": [{"id": "gvky9lv", "text": "What\u2019s a shitty template? Irrelevant information or what?", "replies": [{"id": "gvzld6x", "text": "LOI's that has pretty basic information that they get off the MLS. I'm just used to the longer and customized LOI for the commercial brokers.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gvhll8e", "text": "People that refuse to think.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gvhw0bq", "text": "other people.  doesn't matter who they are really.  just god damn people suck sometimes", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gvhyaoh", "text": "Managing client expectations. I could talk about market conditions until I\u2019m blue in the face and they still think they will find a property from calling on a sign they saw while driving to work. Yea that building was available two years ago. The broker is keeping the sign up to get leads. \n\nThat being said, shitty brokers who don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing/ will not cooperate sometimes are the worst. Also some residential ones are painful to work with when they have a commercial listing.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gviqcgv", "text": "Residential brokers", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gvivbmd", "text": "The municipalities! In general they are horribly slow and not business friendly. Add in covid and it's 10x worse.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gvivm3u", "text": "Tracking down owners, I work as a land acquisition consultant for a few developers where my sole focus is drumming up off market opportunities.\n\nI spend hours a day deciphering LLCs", "replies": [{"id": "gvj2l5s", "text": "You are actually the guy that calls us at 6 pm when we are enjoying family time?!?!? If it's not listed, we don't need to hear from you. Do you think we don't know what we have and we need you to call us and give us a low ball offer? I can 3 calls a week from you guys.", "replies": [{"id": "gvj6k94", "text": "That\u2019s me, minus the after hours calls. You might not want to hear from me, but many do.\n\nRaw land  I dug up closed for over $25 mil last year. 2 200+ unit apartments and 3 industrial developers are all in various stages of leasing/development on land I sourced over the past 2 years. All were off market, almost came from knocking on doors but I do make some cold calls too, especially with the Rona.\n\nThe buyers I work with aren\u2019t trying to scoop up land for pennys on the dollar, they are typically paying fair prices.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gvj7k4m", "text": "As an investor - right now, insurance.  Nobody wants to insure anything.  Everything is too risky apparently.\n\nInsurers:  \u201cWe don\u2019t want to insure old buildings.\u201d\nInvestor:  \u201cOkay, let me renovate.\u201d\n\nInsurer: \u201cWe don\u2019t want to insure you while you renovate.\u201d  \n\nInvestor:  \u201cFuck it, I\u2019ll build new.\u201d \n\nInsurer: \u201cUmm we kind of don\u2019t want to insure new construction either.  \n\nCan you just, like, have a brand new low risk building without having to go through a risky construction?  And no tenants either, those are risky.  \n\nBut not vacant because that\u2019s also risky.\n\nCome to think of it, how about you just give us money?", "replies": [{"id": "gw4p3m1", "text": "Man do I relate to this!\n\nNew to industrial reposition/renovation: No experience, you're too risky.\n\nSeveral years in with no claims, no injuries: We're dropping you, we're overexposed to the region\n\nFind new insurer, higher price, ok fine. Year two, big y/o/y price increase: \"We had a lot of claims in your region last year.\" But not from me??? argh", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gw4wc53", "text": "trying to track down availability and showing instructions. In the current market, most of the properties showing they are available are already in escrow.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "gw4wiks", "text": "When a prospective tenant calls on a building and when you ask \"what type of business they have\", they respond with, \"oh, I have several businesses\". Bunch of clowns.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]