Since you've stayed there and the lot is open, I see the lure, but any time I see something like this - "This is a pure emotional type of investment and I want to honor it."

.: Emotionally..... pay off your primary.Financially..... use the $$ to buy assets that make you $$...hands down a smarter use of your capital Especially if your interest rate is well below what the current rates have been. 

Bid to serve yourself, not serve your emotion.3) Develop your own thesis, stop asking others.

All in all - owning a place to rent to other people is a business, and business decisions need to be made based on that cold hard facts and not on an emotional basis, unless someone wants to quickly go out of business.

The idea of it sitting empty caused me emotional damage. 

I find new investors often struggle with keeping emotions out of the deal.

That means making calculated numbers based decisions, not emotional ones.

When emotion and fantasy and ignorance are at the wheel is when you're in for a crazy ride. 

Leave out the emotion, the lies, the manipulation, etc.

I like to think of it like the BP Money Podcast thinks of it, find the best value but if something is emotionally affecting you, than target that and do what it takes to get that solved and then you don't have to worry about it when you go to sleep.