When people see your *smile* they are looking at your soul, not your features.

Having said that, I would rather gouge out my own eyes than take that soul crushing job.

The OP is making some blanket assumptions, which probably don't hold true if you are a half-way decent investor/landlord.I recently reached 25 units, and had to do some soul-searching (along with searching on BP forums) to decide if I should engage a third-party property manager.

And if his broker is anything like me, may God save your soul if you try to F-him in this way because because I would delight in making an example of such a fool.

It's a culture of death, it consumes human soul's and cares not for color race or religion, it is an equal opportunity destroyer.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”Theodore RooseveltApril 23, 1910Truer words were never spoken.

You may have flexibility if you can turn your portfolio over to a PM if your soul searching suggests trying something new.

They will do this to some other poor soul like you if you don't, don't you care about that?

Her mother, who has passed away (rest her soul) , is still on the deed with my aunt and the lawyers in Texas have quoted my aunt ridiculous numbers to get her mom's name off the deed.

Anotherwords, once someone is in your property, you are (unfairly) hard-pressed to move heaven and earth to get them out, they basically own your property and your soul.