For more complicated reasons, selling is a very difficult and emotional proposition.

This feels more like you have an emotional connection to the house.

., managing a property remotely (even managing the property manager), then that is in my opinion a business, albeit a part-time business.That is not comparable to buying every month into a Vanguard ETF that tracks the S&P 500 and then just having the emotional intelligence not to sell when the market drops - doing that will earn you 7% long-term with no work.

Get your emotions under control, there is no room for sympathy in business.

Establishing emotional boundaries with tenants is important.I am pretty leary of applicants making big plans for my property.

People are so excited to move into their first home but once they realize the neighborhood is not as glamorous as they saw it through their emotional lenses when they first bought it, they set a goal to find a move-up home where they end up living for a longer period of time. 

Don't get emotionally attached.

She decided for the amount of work and emotional heartache it wasn't worth the money.

Emotion can drive a bad deal.

It not only helps save time, money and the boring drive - even though I'd listen to tons of podcasts on the way ;-) - but it also focusses you on the very important phase of analysis and not getting emotionally attached when looking for an investement property.