., your office).Besides the obvious comfort factor, there's a big convenience factor - if you're going to hold onto the property, you'll need to be over there every so often for one thing or another.It really helps reduce the "mental barrier" when the property is close by; it changes it from "on my way home" to "something that's out of my way, when can I fit that into my schedule this week?"

You have a wage slave paycheck mentality. 

@Matt Gragg  This was just my guesstimate and what they had told me was 6 months but I was over inflating for my own mental process.Things that need to be done (major)-Add 1200 sq ft in rear of house and connect upstairs to down stairs.

They have a mental roll-a-dex of vacant properties and will probably rattle off a few on the spot. 

Is it personal preference or do homeowners go with a "bigger is better" mentality?

Many of these people struggle with mental health and/or drug addiction.

In just thought and wondering, do you think that form of advertising generates a different type of seller mentally?

I work in mental health and hoping to become a PMHNP in the future.Living close to the coast (I only mentioned coast because the hospital I work at is close by the coast) would definitely be ideal, especially since driving after a shift, I doze off very easily while driving... even if I nap in the car before hand.

I just never really left N ca mentally

Being able to weather the downturn financially and mentally is important.