You just have to stay focused, avoid emotional decisions based on market changes, and stick to your  investment plan for the long term since it is vital to know that investing is risky.If you want to know more, we can talk more about it.  

There is no emotional attachment.

Keep all your emotions out of it.

Not the best financial investment, but a huge emotional investment. 

You are WAY to emotional and angry to handle this properly.

It takes a certain skillset to close those deals though because talking to those types of people is trickier because they are in distressed/emotional states and have tight deadlines to get things done oftentimes.

There is an emotional component of equity and accumulation that may be less stressful than constantly HAVING to redeploy funds over and over.I'm in Sacramento, maybe the SF option could work out! 

It's a challenging and emotional time for everyone.

Paying down a mortgage early is an emotional decision, not a math decision. 

Whereas if you go into the more desirable neighborhoods, you are competing with owner occupants buying properties based off emotion and not concerned in the slightest with the rent/price ratio.