Most are not paying enough attention to the process and giving variables their true weight.

Well done, you kept your personal feelings aside and succeeded on weight-in the risk, made your adjustments and now you have started a great business relationship.

You should weight the combo (empower - knowledge) VS (fear - ignorance).

The agreement I saw looked like it was printed offline and may or may not hold much weight legally.

Even though investors might have some of the same reasons on their list the Investor 1 might assign importance and risk factor of A at 50% weight and importance and Investor 2 might give 10% weight and importance to it.I have talked with many thousands of investors over the years and heard just about every theory and proposal with thought process about why they want to make a certain decision.  

It was hard to save the money but it was such a weight off my shoulders that last year so I could put my focus to my studies.

This is a better option to take and can carry more weight in court than re-keying.October comes and tenant states she doesn't have the financial means to move and cannot pay anything.

It's no different than if McDonald's told us how much weight we would gain if we ate Chicken Nuggets.

I suggest you not put too much weight on what the rest of the world thinks.

It is great to run numbers in the Pro calculator (it looks like you haven't signed up. go watch a webinar and Brandon always gives out 20% off codes for the membership, worth it's weight in gold just for running the rental calculators 100s of times, which is exactly the practice you need).