Im not so sure the rental market is suffering too bad in NYC as a whole.

If you honestly believe that saving tens of thousands of dollars is not possible, then you suffer from a poverty/scarcity mindset my friend.

I seem to be suffering from shiny object syndrome.

I like doing both but you're right: your health suffers.

However, if are you dependent on w2 income or other investments or know someone who is, they will be suffering. 

Other than that, the strong do what they want and the weak suffer what they must.

I think the book suffers from the curse that it was a paper to start with that got really good reviews in B-school academic circles so the authors decided to cash in and expand it to book length, which was a bad call.

The STR market has gotten competitive, and those properties that do not deliver unique experiences are starting to suffer.  

By century’s end, that number will increase to $19 billion, with a one in 100 chance of a $26 billion risk, concluded researchers"[The question being, how quickly will the wealthy respond to this and will that response be uniform, i.e. all at once]"By 2100, Southern Californians will suffer temperatures exceeding 95 degrees Fahrenheit for more than 200 days of the year, researchers found.

That's something that would have been easily spotted and should have been included in the original scope of work.At the end of the day, I'm suffering because I've never seen the house and I trusted other people to evaluate it and treat it the way I would.