The pressure starts building when someone is motivated, and they sell when the tension gets to the busting point.  

When you fixate on your long term goals for a minute all the doubt you have will ease up.

It is a complete lie to say money does not matter, a lullaby the poor sing to each other to ease there anxiety of living a lessor life.

You will be able to focus on your house hacking goal and building a rental RE portfolio without the added stress of being in the basement and tension with family.

Help me ease my fears or validate it. 

You are not alone, there are a lot of spooky things out there. a lot of this value run up is probably due to pure inflation and Fed Reserve Quanative Easing (pumping more cash into circulation)I don't know, but something don't feel right. 

@Steve Mandelbaum of course numbers were rounded just a bit for ease of conversation.

Being from nearby Chicago I was jealous of ease to evict there.  

Ok now I got ya where you got the 50% numbers from...Yeah I'm at a point where I can do one more conventional mortgage with "ease" (already have 3) but don't want to put out that much cash hence the owner finance idea if I can get my terms.

Steve made a great comment about the feeling of not having a note on your investments, it really puts you at ease dealing with bad tenants and vancancies.