After 3 months of really high tension and getting a grasp of the situation, slowly new transactions start to happen in June and houses start showing up more and more in July.

Paying for a professional house cleaner monthly/quarterly can be a great way to alleviate house tensions about who does the cleaning as well!

A program like this would help ease all those tensions, turn things around.It looks like Path to Ownership was an attempt at this but didn't involve landlords? 

Really feel like knocking on the door but was advised by attorney not too as this could cause "tension" and favors toward tenant.  

There has to be some way to overlap the two worlds of business and charity/kindness/etc, but it is likely more nuanced than we think when getting into REI.Perhaps the guardrail on the other side here is:  how do we become excellent at running our businesses as businesses without becoming jaded, cynical, and closed off to opportunities for kindness and service.It's a conundrum, but one worth hashing out and holding in tension.

As a fellow FIRE-walker I understand the tension and pull you may feel in this:  pay off your current debts early (so that you can be free) or put the capital to work on investments?

Too much supply within a given area can push prices down as well as cause tensions with neighbors and the local community with neighborhoods transforming into more transient destinations than family friendly neighborhoods.

There is a continual tension between capital growth and cash flow.

I know on the commercial/industrial projects I work on you can only pour the Cement Post Tension Slab under specific temp and humidity conditions.

Don't give away the farm, but you can do some things to ease the tension and reduce your guilt.