Probably because the guys "paying" the notes are a pain.  

The rationale is that paying off the highest rate first means you are left with lower interest loans.A good reason to pay off smaller balances first is the psychological benefit.

Or if you are sick of getting these.Best,JC Paine

If you find it to be a pain to manage yourself hire a management company to do it for you. 

That is painful because this is small town in Midwest and 2 bedroom rent is $550 a month.

Submitting such POF evidence with your offer carries with it powerful psychological comfort letter with most sellers. 

It will be a pain in the butt to turn the property over so quickly.3.

I am working towards my doctorate in psychology.

Lots of people move to the fringe because they can't afford anywhere else. then when the market softens, those areas get hit, and painfully so.However, another strategy is to make sure you're looking at different product type as well. hedge funds beat up a specific category in Sacramento and the Inland Empire driving the prices up quickly to where they don't make that much sense.

Hire enough losers, throw enough money away until the memory of the excruciating painfulness of the results of saying yes to someone you should have said no to is deep enough.