It's a lifestyle and personal values choice. 

When you become a landlord it become challenging when you start having to deal with humanity...especially when it's a different lifestyle than you are accustom to. 

Remember a personal home is a lifestyle choice not a investment unless you are definatly planning to move out at the end of a year.I would hope that the money to buy was a loan and not a actual partnership.

All of your investment activity should support your personal, financial and lifestyle goals.

If the Tenant Buyer walks away from the deal I get to keep his Option payment since it is non-refundable and I sell to another Tenant Buyer and get another Option Payment usually about $20k to $25k.I encourage people to get qualified for financing and to plan their lifestyle to be able to get a loan to exercise the Option.

I have never worked for anyone always been 1099 for 40 some years.. so to me its a life style..

‘lifestyle’ business – ie simply intended to be run by and to provide an ongoing source of work and income for the proprietors, no clear vision for the long term future?

They cannot achieve salaries that can help support their lifestyles as everything in the City increases dramatically.The population that is staying are then benefiting from their higher equity as their home prices increase as well as their ability to achieve higher salaries from those jobs that require a skillset for it.With the higher equity, if they owned, they are then able to send their children to higher quality of schools which we know are expensive today.When those kids come back, they want to stay, mostly because it's a great place and they can afford it by going to these quality schools and Universities.ANYWAY, I think you get the point.I have been seeing this trend for the last 21 years investing in Brooklyn, NYC.

This is not really an investment question - it is a lifestyle question.With renting you will have no possibility for appreciation.

Being an agent just never fit my lifestyle personally.