Psychologically, a Tenent/buyer will have the most commitment to the property with a land contract, a little less with a rent to own, and the least if they are just a tenant.We prefer to have a SEC 8 tenant in a rental in a low income neighborhood simply because they stay so much longer than non-SEC 8 tenants.  

A single piece of marketing is unimportant without a strategy and system behind it to address your seller's psychological journey. 

Here's a little bit about me: I'm going into my senior year at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and majoring in Psychology while minoring in business at the Isenberg School of Management.

In other cases it's because there is a psychological barrier: there are more than a few residents of Flint who have never lived anywhere else.

Also, this topic has two perspectives when it comes to the response: one is based purely on math/economics and the other is psychological.

Do human behaviors/psychology change with each cycle?

3) Would the financial/psychological/time commitment worth it.4) Knowing what you know from RE, if you were in my position (considering RE as a side venture) what would you do?

If a seller does have to disclose emotional defects, which ones and how much detail they need to go into again varies among locations.In Massachusetts, for example, the possibility of a property being “psychologically impacted” isn’t considered a “material fact required to be disclosed” to potential buyers.

It's an article about psychology and use of color in marketing.http://blog.bufferapp.com/the-science-of-colors-in-marketing-why-is-facebook-blue

Unless he has a somewhat unique psychological profile, the buyer who pursues houses not on MLS is either an investor looking for a fixer he can purchase cheaply or looking for a property he can buy subject to the mortgage while putting in low or no down payment, or someone who thinks he will be able to cut the price by the amount of the commission the seller is saving.