Are you able to negotiate terms strategically and treat the home and tenant as a business without getting emotionally involved?   

Average people are more likely to overpay based on emotional decisions.Multifamily you are dealing almost exclusively with investors and for them/us it's all about the numbers...

I have a guest who frequents my apartment, and has two Emotional Support Animals.

@Veronika Burnette1 Get an agent arms length transaction you're too close emotional to you own house 2..

They obviously need to sell it and the only real thing holding them back is emotions.

I understand how you feel cheated and can sympathize with the emotion, but the law doesn't care about your feelings. 

I was speaking to others who actually have an opinion and can leave emotion out of it.

Move on, the seller obviously has the  price they want, and is hot 'feeling enough pain' to want to sell cheaper.Don't ever get emotionally involved in a house,,,numbers are numbers,,when you start wanting a property too bad, you make mistakes.Often if you watch a property in a few months it will either be a short sale or REO property, or the seller will come down, but not alwaysandy

They are less emotionally involved and would be easier to negotiate with.

These folks smell your desperation, your newness and can easily emotionally manipulate you by dangling an allusion of their wealth in front you.