Seems the right mentality. 

- great mental challenge! 

Everyone who is just blindly saying you need to fire people is just reacting with a herd mentality with no basis for a logical opinion considering you didn't provide a complete story.What you described was landscaping.

Diet and exercise have a great effect on the body both physically and mentally.  

It’s easy to say to be more financially fit, physically fit, mentally fit etc.  

Any advice for getting through this mental roadblock when it comes to real estate investing?

My biggest mental barrier is knowing what these used to go for (in the 90s!) 

Most mentally exhausting undertaking of my life.

.- Simplify my career responsibilities and spend more time being mentally present with the family.

I'm hoping that the legislature here (with plenty of representatives that are NOT from super-lefty urban areas)  will be willing to consider that the downsides of allowing rent control would outweigh any benefits long term,  and there are other approaches to ease homelessness and housing availability crunch that should be considered instead (encouraging more housing construction, incentivising and underwriting riskier tenant pools instead of forcing landlords to take them; reinvestment in mental health and drug treatment programs and transitional housing, working with employers to site new job centers in underdeveloped/struggling areas, etc.)I'm certain that if the state constitution is amended Seattle will implement some kind of rent control.