Dont get emotional about it or you can make more mistakes.

Connect on their human emotion How do we accomplish this ?

@KC Conti One of the hardest thing to learn in RE is “you need to lov your money more then a particular property” You seem to emotional attached with this dealNo deal is better then a bad deal

With that said, I'm prepared to run my business like a business and not with a emotion. 

If you paid $10k for the down payment and closing costs of the investment, then your very first cash flow is NEGATIVE $10k.I think because there are so many investors that have not learned the sophistication of the calculations, they become emotionally against a NEGATIVE cash flow even though the very FIRST cash flow is NEGATIVE.That's because they really only understand a definition of Cash Flow which does not actually involve the flow of cash!

This is where sometimes emotions gets the best of people when it should be remembered that this is a business and requires business decisions not emotions.

Proximity and identification of higher worth asset pockets becomes difficult/volatile to predict.Political environment and societal expectations that can be borderline ideological with regards to the aboveIf the crime does not get under control (see the above thoughts on education, gini, poverty, etc) this will weigh on perceptions and asset values for years to comeOn the upside:Indy is positioned well as a logistics hub which fueled growth, and it has a reasonably diversified economy.There is access to high quality higher education in the area.I will not invest in Indy although I did look at it awhile bJim, It looks like you're letting emotions and ideologies mixed in with some anecdotal experience influence your perception of the market.

This is strictly an emotional argument.

She’s said some nasty things out of desperation and I’ve alway come back with polite yet firm responses, trying not to get emotionally involved.  

Enough information in a timely fashion to keep you updated but also allow the Property Manager to effectively run their business without putting you through an unnecessary emotional roller coaster ride.