.#1:  Get the emotions out of it, and keep them out, or they will find a way to get you to rationalize some solution, that isn't a solution. 

If you continue to go about the emotional route of treating your tenants, you're going to burn yourself out really fast.

I tried to address her emotional fears with numbers.

Hanging on to a property for any reason other than financial, is an emotional decision...or a bad poker move. 

I've learned a lot in my research of Texas about how hard it really is to find that great deal and how you have to keep emotions out of it!

They caught me off guard as I didn't want to delay my closing and allowed my emotions to take over first vs trusting my gut instinct!

If it’s for investment, I say don’t get emotional and fire off whatever offer you want to.

It sounds like to me that your agent is used to working with normal home buyers who make decisions in large part based on emotion.

If you are going to develop into a full time professional real estate investor you are going to have to develop emotional intelligence along with everything else.

I know how buying a house for a primary residence can become an emotional decision which increases the amount a person is willing to pay... but with attempting to pick up a long-term buy and hold, at least in my experience, the profitably is largely determined at purchase (and of course subsequent to this, proper tenant screening and management of the property).