If you let discouragement take over and be the leading emotion, you'll always feel like you have an uphill battle.  

Anyhow, emotional backstory aside, I know that as I get more involved into my real estate investing career, my goals will change, but in the present, that is what I hope to seek out from real estate investing.So what I'm hoping to achieve from these forums is an opportunity to shadow and hopefully do an unpaid internship with a real estate investor as to learn the ropes, in addition to getting familiarized with the process and the mindset of a real estate investor as they carry on with their everyday tasks.

The other is emotional. 1) Practical - buy using Subject To in Phoenix or a similar market where you can receive your investment back at closing and cash flow for years on the same property.

I (and my property owners) wouldn't want to be dealing with "newbies" all summer that try to bring glass bottles and loud music to poolside - and I guarantee that happens more frequently when people are temporary.

You seem to be making this way more complicated and emotional than it needs to be.

Those have no intrinsic value and trade only on emotion and supply/demand.  

But we are human and not robots without emotion so I don't think truely that emotion isn't removed out of that equation. 

There is no place in business for emotions.

Most of these people get emotionally attached to the home and they don't put that emotion aside and expect you to pay outrageous.

Sounds like a headache to me, let the tenant "buy it" and if the deal falls through low ball them... if not find another deal, nothing seems objectively special about this one rather it's emotionally driven.