I would not recommend buying any property you wouldn’t feel comfortable living in.

I would highly suggest getting into a market you at least somewhat know, are comfortable with, and/or have some sort of tie to. 

This might make it sound like he was a bad guy, but I think he was just trying to be an okay neighbor....He was kind of straddling that line of not doing what his agreement with the complex was asking him to do...Jon Taffer of Bar Rescue always says that people get comfortable with a discount because they come to expect it, and then get pissed when it gets taken away.

You can become more comfortable with confrontation and more successful at it.

I think a decent litmus test is that if you don't feel 100% comfortable walking in the neighborhood at night, you should avoid investing there.

I would say that if you are not comfortable with anyone than you shouldn't go with them. 

Perhaps there is a middle ground where the $145K balance has to be accelerated down a certain amount for the lender to be comfortable with the release of the subdivided parcel.

The north side of the Lake has a different environment.

We will need to mortgage the condo or sell it in order to outfit our home (and my brother-in-laws home) for my in-laws to live privately and comfortably.

And so there were many reasons that I never felt personally comfortable with pulling the trigger on them.At the same time, you want to know how the investment is actually doing.