Often people who fall into this trap have bought property for emotional, and not financial, reasons.

One more tip – people remember stories that trigger their emotions.

The investment game is all just math—if you do the math well (which includes accounting for the unexpected by low-balling your estimates) then your investment decisions don't have to be stressful emotional ones, they're just decisions that are either smart or not smart after you break them down on a calculator.Which extends to the last point that I've come to believe completely—your rental portfolio is a business.

Lastly..Gang seriously.It is frustrating how much proof I constantly need to post yet so many of you are so invreddibly stubborn so see what is right infront of you, and make decisions based on emotion/opinion, instead of Proof, Data, evidence.It truly is up to you.Want to keep struggling?

I mean it's good to have empathy and emotional intelligence however you have to treat this like a business and not a hobby. 

Appreciation is a tangible result over time of an intangible emotion, desire. 

People even go out of their way to not accept emotional support animals.

Once you know your buy box then it will take all of the emotions out of it.

Motivation is not a logical thing, it is an emotional thing.

I believe he may be a little too emotionally attached.