Not mad, but emotionally upset.

They haven't done so here.Of course, newspapers have to exaggerate the real story to create the emotion to buy the headline.Be creative and you can profit in any market - once you know the market.Real estate is a LOCAL issue that can never be treated correctly by using national averages.

It's an emotional buy.

You're showing yours and I'm sure you'll be quite successful if you keep the positive attitude; just be sure to go on knowledge, not emotion!

It shows reason winning over emotion, which is 90% of the battle for most people.I think we should be very careful about suggestions we make to newbies.

People are motivated by different emotions.

We have all been excited about one thing or another and made a bad decision because we have our emotions involved.

I hope you don't take this as a critique, but a lesson from someone who has seen families and friends torn apart from bad business (real estate) decisions, as well as from someone who has seen investors burned for making emotional decisions instead of business ones.

If you keep emotions out of your investing you'll be a step ahead of most of the pack.Good luck and welcome to the site!

Originally posted by "littleivy":I haven't fallen in love with the property. ....I've fallen in love with the RE market here.The point he is making is that you clearly have a lot emotionally invested in this deal.