However I have a hard time separating the emotional side of things from the numbers/deal.

The other one had a dog, which turned out to become an emotional support animal.

If you begin your investment career while you are hurting for income, your investment decisions will be influenced by your emotions.

Best is when they get emotional and start demanding and arguing with judge, oh-yeah, that's when pull out the pop-corn and just back n watch the show, lol. 

Is this an emotional and preference thing or a true need?

I wouldn't make decisions based on emotion (fear, in this case). 

I just see it for the people that made emotional purchases and over-paid without knowing anything about investing or the market.

These people are usually emotionally detached from the house which allows them to make logical choices instead of emotional ones.

I saw some pretty stupid comments come out of her mouth, studying witchcraft, masterbation and sex, she goes the way the wind blows and is obviously easily influenced.As to Rand, anyone who couldn't pass his professional degree and not qualify for his certification and then start his own accredidation society to achieve his goals is not the kind of personality I would want skeeming in congress passing laws that effect others.His ideas are beyond ludicrist, these pure constitutionalsits wanting to get rid of the Department of Education, etc. are doing nothing more than palying on the emotions of dim witted, uneducated, red necks who tend to vote to their aspirations rather than the reality of their poor, lower/middle income class and simply resent the fact that they will never be much more than they are, yet they will defend the thinking that benefits only the ultra-wealthy as if that will make them something, at least within their own ego.

This is also where accidentally spending much more money on reno can sneak in-it's a direct link to emotions in the middle of your business.I don't hear you doing the above, but wanted to explain thinking behind my advice that it is possible to avoid crappy tenants in every area and it's easier to do that now (early) by defining core competencies and systematizing those into touches that tenants can "get".So while the rental market is a commodity market, I tend not to think of it only that way.