Tugging on the strings of emotions as everyone feels like they got cheated.

As I noted and James is going into deeper detail, the Title company or closing attorney or whomever will send out the docs to both seller and buyer and will want them returned signed and notarized.

I'm torn... as an investor, I am not emotionally attached to the house (beyond it being my first, you know men and our firsts!)...

Say the tenant stops paying rent around that time and you start an eviction, the entire time the tenant is in the house, you can't turn the utilities off, so then you'd be digging a deeper hole.

Well Tyler, If the home has a big emotional attachment to you and you family, I would not sell it.

I’ve been burned too many times in the past to know I can’t be making emotional decisions.

To dig a little deeper into "why" a mortgage doesn't stay attached - there are a couple of reasons.The biggest, is that the county wants a second interested party in a parcel who would be responsible for paying the taxes each year.

Living it too often turns a "house" into a "home" and generates emotional attachment.

Remove the emotion of a loss here and a gain there.

There's too much irrationality in real estate to get yourself emotionally attached to any property you don't own.