Personal financial planning is at the forefront of everything.

It's good that you are asking this question on the forefront.

When you spell it out in an Addendum, I think it brings the issue to forefront.  

Not likely, but I bet they'd be happy to charge your for chatting with them to "keep your interest at the forefront" or some such billable nonsense  ;)

Moving forward, my wife and I bought our first home 6 years ago, always keeping real estate investing in the forefront of my mind, but thought it was the right thing to do to purchase our first home which was a single family.

This is just another thing to factor into the numbers and if it all makes sense then great but definitely a 3x factor to keep on the forefront...because there’s not enough spinning plates, right?

The potential problem I'm seeing with that is bringing the FMV of the home to the forefront. 

If there is a "crash" in RE I think it would be on the back of a general economic downtown, not like '08 where RE was at the forefront of the recession.

You have to be strictly ethical in keeping the party's interest at the forefront without being selfish, get the best deal possible 2.

I keep rule #1 in the forefront of my mind when making decisions and it keeps me out of trouble.