. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This Right Here^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^As mentioned, you asked how to deal with this mentally and Nathan answered that question - get a property manager to deal with tenants.

But it also creates a scarcity mentality and politicizes the process. 

You may not know the mental state or anything about the person.

Plus, they have more of an "ownership" mentality and do not abuse your property. 

Yes, your cashflow may dip a bit, but for me the peace of mind of someone else handling it was amazing.Plus, then you can use that mental bandwidth on new deals out in AZ if that is what you are interested in doing.

Some broker may be ok to accept less buying commision but decline.I typically negotiate my buyer commision too but to be extremely honest, only "Asian-born" is typically acceptng less buying agent negotiation, so if they're getting 2.5% and I would get 0.5%, but I mentioned to them I don't ask them to drive me around, I only want disclosure report and I would visit property myself.The problem with very high hefty buyer agent while buyer agent almost do nothing is very real issue in bay area at least, most buyer agent is just trying to force buyer to submit their bid (and their life) with zero contingency and submit 100k above listing LOL LOLthis regulation would change these mentality for sure, the seller could be more greedy by now lol.Now because buyer agent and buyer is determined upfront and then seller would have their own metric, these thing would be interesting.

Not sure I'm mentally ready to do it but most folks would find that counterintuitive. 

I'd like to meet other physician investors and want to know how you overcame that 'truckload of money' mentality and decided to invest in real estate. 

One of my first investments when I started 18 years ago was to invest in a scalable , versatile CRM.

It's mentally and physically exhausting but it doesn't tear up your joints.