The introduction of a nuclear weapon in any form, tactical or not, would have a great psychological impact on the region and can open some big pandora boxes.

If someone older is considering renting from you, there is a psychological response that either you don't know anything or that they have really screwed up life to need to rent from someone so much younger than them.

Depression will likely be more psychological, I think.

I stopped goofing off.I am a freaking NASA robotics scientist, I have 5 friggin University degrees, and not in psychology, drama or business (sorry all you easy-way-to-get-a-degree folks out there ^_^ (kidding... or AM I..)...

You'll hear wholesalers try to justify the bigger bucks, nine ways to the moon, but it's a psychological issue doing so, not business, not fair dealing, not the real estate business.

HOWEVER, this RARELY occurred.I tried to analyze it on a psychological basis.

There are going to be plenty of potential sellers that don't sell because they don't want to trade 3.5% for 7%, regardless of the actual impact - the psychology of it is too disturbing to a lot of people.

@David Cheng I have a lot of clients in Washington State looking into the Boise market because our price points are generally lower and our rental rates are increasing with the natural migration and local tach companies moving in, expanding. the market here has been aggressively rising over the last 4 years to a point where the rebound has had quite the psychological affect on seller's and listing agents. something to consider.

I'm interested to see what some other, more experienced REI say about this concept.I have always been a DIY guy. I built my own house - literally, built my own house, contracting out just a few parts of the job - and ...

Go for it Arnie, you never know what you might find.This deal may have something fishy, however, investor behavior and psychology is imperfect, and lots of valuable deals pass by because of some of the reasons that you mentioned.