Weigh your options and hopefully try to limit emotional decisions.

It was more emotional equity that built good will and helped the stick with us through the ins and outs of the 1031 escrow process.

Also based on advise and on my notes taken from BP Books and BP articles: - All cash offers are stronger - Offer to close faster than other offers - If applicable Give two offers, as the seller could compare your offers rather than their asking price - Offer more earnest money - Provide pre-Aproval letter - Stick to your numbers don’t let emotions take over you - Ask the seller what their lowest price is and go lower - Simply Ask is that the best you can do ?

To me, it's an investment, think of your tenant as your client and when times get tough give them the emotional incentive to want to keep paying rent/be extra communicative and transparent.

It is an investment, no doubt, but it is ok to be emotional about your own house and where you will raise your family.

There's at least a "small" emotional tie to the beach home ... and it's a distance away ... and I know it would be cheaper for you to rent for a week every 6 weeks than it would be to try to turn the rentals of your lovely (investment) beach-house into a pretzel to make it work on both sides of the ledger sheet.  

If anyone who buys the home has a weakened immune system or respiratory disease, they could react badly to the residual nasties.If it's isolated to the garage and didn't get into the home, completely gut that area down to the studs and seal it with a high quality sealer.

When investing, I've found that you've got to take emotion out of the deal.

Once you figure out your target property type and area, use the calculators on this site to analyze sample deals so you become very comfortable with your target price and know exactly what you are looking for so your emotion doesn't get the best of you....Good luck.  

As big as DFW, it is still a small market, and word will get around.I don't think you are trying to do anything underhanded, but the results  you are sharing are why there is such a strong (and often negative) emotional response to wholesalers in general.