Don't let those emotions taint what has to this point been a positive experience.  

What did you learn in the buying/renting process, and how is it coming along in the long-run, emotionally and financially.

Real estate is an emotional purchase and offending the seller can happen. 

People get emotional about things like this, and step over a dollar to pick up a nickel.

To reach visitor emotions further, play some pleasant music in the background. 

This is an emotional statement, and has no place in REI. 

I really don’t want to put them through forfeiture, especially since I got emotionally involved and know their whole family that resides there.

It's their home and they have an emotional attachment to it.

I operate two adjacent co-living spaces where I rent furnished rooms to young professionals who move to SF and need temporary housing. 

All of us want to be explorers or adventures at some level and real estate is alluring but strip the emotion from it as best you can and do what makes SENSE to you based on what you know of yourself, your abilities and the advise you get here.In my part of the country, multi-fams tend to be in certain areas.