Another thing I struggle with is that at one point the big house where my son grew up was 800K, and now its only 550k, so that's another issue I am having in addition to an emotional attachment to that house.

A flipper is trying to get the highest sales price possible so they will make the house look really nice so a primary home buyer becomes emotionally invested in the house and makes an offer. 

Motivation is an emotional thing.

Get demo done as quickly as possible with a larger crewHave a clear vision for the property up frontHaving a higher quality finish drove an emotional appeal for the property and got it sold very quickly in a tough market to sell

PM’s I’m not defending the unlicensed plumber but that’s how so many of those companies make margin, if you want someone licensed the easiest way is to self manage a property (I have a duplex 1.5 away I self manage, have a great plumber, he’s literally replacing a hot water heater tomorrow while I’m 1.5 hours away) as far as the future, it’s really important to try to take the emotion out which I know can be difficult, is this a property that has had issues but can be corrected and become a profitable and relatively easy property to manage.

You learn to stick to the facts and do your best to leave emotions out of it. 

 Emotional Support Animals are not protected by the ADA or Tennessee's SERVICE ANIMAL LAWS.

Really analyze the deals you look at and, if your modeling says it's a bad deal, don't get emotional and do it.

Since then, Jerome Powell has “walked back” some of his more emotive comments, and the January jobs report was almost unbelievably strong.

Oh well , at least the numbers make it very easy to sever the emotion :)