It didn't have enough equity to make selling worth it and back then the rents to sales price ration was much sweeter in my area than it is now.

The rational is always the same.

The lesson learned from Napster and other peer-to-peer services is that you cut out the middle man, but the middle man doesn't like that.

I am a rational person  and it happened to me. 

Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery.

Their is no logical rational for the CA market aside from too much money in the hands of people that do not understand the value of money.

It doesn't really make a difference to the planet,  but it makes you feel better,  so I guess you can rationalize it that way.

Rationing, war bonds, Rosie the riveter, being a soldier....now, it's easy.

BiggerPockets needs to aspire to perfection in every single piece of content reflecting a “rational optimism” about real estate investing - we believe in it’s power, and fear near-term volatility. 

Finding myself one month ahead on my mortgage had become good mental headspace when it came to managing the anxieties of rentals and reliably took a considerable amount of solid fear off the table whether that fear was rational and justified or not.