Who knows he might be two months behind on his truck payment and something as small as 500 bucks would be a dreamCome true to get him out of a bad situation right now .He probably has little emotional connection to the house being it’s been a decade since he left it so some quick easy cash in his pocket would be something he didn’t have the day before .

Use the numbers as guides so you don't have to worry about being emotional about a purchase. 

Just this week I had a client convert a flip into a rental after it sat on the Oakland market for over a month at a price that would have yielded fairly low profit, and this is someone with a track record of successful flips in years past.So I guess this is neutral-to-good news if you're doing buy-and-hold and finding a way not to compete with the owner occupants bidding based on emotional appeal inspired by a reality TV show, but bad news if you're trying to be the next HGTV rockstar flipper paying MLS prices. 

The demographic of a city is a starting point but you will have to drill deeper for meaningful information.

Looking back, it was definitely an emotional based decision.

We put some of them into a retail house, to create a positive emotion in a buyer.

Welcome to BP Tommy.Don't use emotions to consider investment deals.

She is financially irresponsible, living beyond her means, rent would never be paid on time and having her as a tenant would place a serious emotional strain on your existing tenants.

It's hard to enforce rules when there is an additional emotional connection.

I have stopped answering phone calls and resorted only to written communication (for my records) but have noticed a pattern of very emotional and aggressive behavior from this tenant (as well as extremely unreasonable expectations about what the timeline is to have something fixed).