This may help:https://adata.org/publication/service-animals-book...A service animal is specifically trained to do a task (the one most folks are familiar with are, of course, the seeing eye dogs).A comfort (emotional support) animal does not need to be trained to do anything except provide emotional support to the owner.Keep in mind that neither animal is considered to be a PET; therefore, pet fees cannot be charged. 

Numbers don't lie and emotions will lead you astray.When looking at investment properties, I look for the following benefits:Cash flowTax benefitsAmortizationAppreciation The old saying "icing on the cake", that's appreciation.  

The most important part of being independent and investing is being disciplined and not letting your emotions dictate your investments.

Given a reasonable asset allocation, emotionally stable personality and a decent time horizon, combination of index funds/RE will beat either index funds or RE alone, 9 times out of 10. 

As opposed to single family houses that can be mired in emotional entanglements, everything's for sale for the right price.I actually skip the people on the list and call them up with a very simple elevator pitch."

RE investors are always preaching not to get emotionally involved, but I think the vast majority of regular folks do (myself included).

Whoever gets too emotional loses.

I don't advocate taking on loans just for the tax write off, but if used as a strategy to scale faster, it is very powerful.The biggest argument for paying cash is piece of mind, so it is an emotional argument not a logical argument.

I read somewhere we don't have to allow emotional support animals since we live here and it is less than a 4 unit, or something like that.

So far, the only red flag is the cat they’d like to bring (and I don’t really allow pets), but it’s the mothers emotional support animal.