Commuting an hour or so on I-65 after working a ten hour day sounds miserable to me.

In the northern states you'll freeze to death, in the southern states you'll be miserable. 

Eventually the change became less scary than the prospect of spending the rest of my life miserable. 

The live a miserable hand to mouth life.

If I listened to everyone else, I’d stop my real estate ventures today and work my miserable nine to five until 65 and make someone else rich while I lived on a fixed income.

Pretty miserable.

I was thinking of quitting my miserable job to do that with him full time but have reservations about actually being able to find enough properties to flip here that would provide me enough income to live off of.

If you have your out, take it, unless its an incredible deal, seller is obviously a scumbag if he's going to pull something like that, especially if his entire family is in the building, you'll be miserable.

@Pete Mathias there are now 3 city departments armed with making life miserable for landlords all under the notion that they are looking out for tenants.

Coastal commission, historic committees and small town building departments are miserable to deal with.