@Douglas Alexander, best advice is to mind your numbers and don't fall in love with a particular piece of real estate.People get emotional over homes...

Making an emotional purchase decision on an investment property and ignoring the numbers. 

She was determined to close the sale by the end of the month, but her husband, who had no legal claim to the property, refused to leave.The situation was emotionally and logistically complex.

To me it feels more like a game of chess, to my wife it was a lot more emotional, we had a couple tenants that really got under her skin, at least in the beginning.

It is an emotional thing.

Don't get emotionally attached to a project.

My Zillow account was disabled today due to an inappropriate comment a made to a prospective tenant about Emotional Support Animals.

But if you're disciplined in money management, which is what they don't really put an emphasis on, then it might just work.  

Owner-occupied transactions are mostly emotional decision based.Investors should check emotions at the door and only make business based decisions.What does that mean in practice?

Bush-5%Republican2012Obama14%Democrat2016Obama16%Democrat2020Trump6%Republican2024Biden12%Democrat​Historical data reveals no correlation between the presidential party in office and housing price growth or stock market performance.The stock market is driven by emotions in the short term and by corporate performance in the long term.