All in all - owning a place to rent to other people is a business, and business decisions need to be made based on that cold hard facts and not on an emotional basis, unless someone wants to quickly go out of business.

The idea of it sitting empty caused me emotional damage. 

I like to think of it like the BP Money Podcast thinks of it, find the best value but if something is emotionally affecting you, than target that and do what it takes to get that solved and then you don't have to worry about it when you go to sleep. 

When emotion and fantasy and ignorance are at the wheel is when you're in for a crazy ride. 

Generalists tend to get erratic sales here and there.Residential working with home owners is more of an emotional component versus investors is more about the numbers.

That means making calculated numbers based decisions, not emotional ones.

I find new investors often struggle with keeping emotions out of the deal.

Leave out the emotion, the lies, the manipulation, etc.

Emotion attracts that.

Geez, there’s so much opinion, emotions, beliefs, and personal experience in this thread.