I have, though, in the past provided discounts (in renting and in selling) to vets and civil servants (fire fighters, police, etc.) which I perceive to give a more positive impression. 

GFC was due to naive/lazy nurses/teachers/cops/fire-fighters and anyone else with a pension, not deploying any Due Diligence and just letting their greedy pension managers get billions in fees to invest in crap MBS and synthetic CDOs, all else by banking and ratings agencies and real estate investors just followed like trigger/hammer/powder/bullet down the pipe.

Which I know from being in other business that that does not look good to clients if I have to cancel showing or if I don’t show for showing and pay someone else to show my house I think you can pull it off as long as you set expectations properly with clients upfront and especially if you’re working with people you already know, like other fire fighters for example will be fine with your unpredictable schedule.

Everyone in this industry knows that I am a fighter when it comes to protecting my clients.

Basically, it sounds like you just got your learner's permit to fly a small personal non-commercial plane, and instead, you went out and bought a fighter jet... 

I also saw a blog post by the Financial Samurai that said if he could sell a rental for more than 100x the monthly rent, he should... but I wasn't sure if others liked that as a general rule? 

So sad...... what is scary too is they only have them 10-20% contained and they are expected to get high winds again which can carry those embers pretty far. you also have to think these fire fighters etc. have been working around the clock and must be exhausted.

God bless good-hearted, honest little birds.There’s the fighter.

Fortunately for our 100+ house community, the fire department was already on site battling the brush fire and about a dozen fire fighters frantically extinguished the 4 or 5 roofs burning.This is insignificant compared to what has happened in LA, Palisades, Malibu and Altadena however having lived through Hurricane Andrew and many other major storms even this experience was drastically more terrifying and chaotic. 

In previous roles, I was responsible for the asset management, capital improvement, repair, and maintenance of an ANG Fighter Base worth over $400M.