On the flip side, when your network is littered with fakers and takers, your business suffers because you rarely find out that you are working with until you've invested time and emotional energy.  

Its supportive both financially and emotionally.  

Emotions are not a reason to invest.  

Knowing these will replace the subjective and often emotional decision-making process with an objective and analytical one, and may just save your arse.Overall on this deal, the numbers look decent.

When they have 4 kids and medical issues, etc, it becomes an emotional struggle between doing the right thing and doing what is profitable.  

As excited as I am to complete the first transaction, your questions are a good reminder to make a decision based off of the numbers, and not emotion.

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.