Investors are misreading the psychology if they think that having my own personal cash in a deal is going to cause their investment to perform any differently.

I believe understanding the psychology side of anything will always be of benefit to myself and others.

@David WeintraubHi David.Yeah, the real problem with Rent Control/Stabilization in NYC and elsewhere is more of a psychological one.The regulated renters kind of lives in this isolated environment and has a connection with the value of their apt although it isn't necessarily their property.

"The Psychology of Selling" by Brian Tracy3.

As for your analysis, the trend data looks pretty compelling, but then I think you also really have to look at psychology/sociology for some answers too.

I didn't mean to imply you act that way, on your own tuffness is standing your ground, making the rules and insisting they comply, it's the psychology behind it with a bully, not getting into a fight or a yelling match......

Expanding knowledge about people and psychology and marketing and technology just to make a few will enhance your ability to see holistic solutions to problems.

My wife is what I would consider fairly supportive but doesn't quite buy into real estate, and is  averse in general which creates psychological road blocks that I need to contend with. 

If you're the type that pays various handymen to fix things as you go and never really cares to learn how a building or a house operates, what it needs as periodic maintenance, what its weak and strong points are -- fixing old properties can easily turn into Whac-a-Mole and cost three or four times what it should.On the people side: after doing this for long enough, I've come to understand that not everyone is psychologically cut out to be a landlord and deal with tenants all day long.

It's called "psychologically disadvantaging" a property.