NC river swirls with gray muck near flooded coal ash dump, etc., just google it. 

AS for owner occ homes or new construction.. folks buy those on need and emotion.. not on financial return calcs.. 

You are also working with less emotional clients and ones that are making more of a financial decision verses worrying about the color of the walls or what kind of flooring is in the living room.

Gone are the days when a property was offered up for  no more than the amount of taxes owed, now days it has become a bidding process and as in any auction enviroment people tend to get emotional about their bidding and become quite impractical, and irrational buyers

Clean it up, rent it at market rate, and pat yourself for making a "business" decision instead of an emotional one.

Most of the people that hire a good PM find they make more money paying their fee than not, tenants know there is no emotion, and tenants are more apt to pay. 

I have been through some bad tenants but nothing so extreme and the experience taught me to keep out my emotions.

foundations SCARE people... its an emotional response. 

Mislabel one of the other parties emotions or desires “so it seems that you are really eager to leave your job” when you know they want to stay-this forces them to listen and tell you that’s not it, but this is.

In my mind, I figured it would weed out people who had too much emotional investment in their property.