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Wholesale earnest money
Hey there, might be a dumb question but when we talk to the seller about earnest money and they agree to $10 to make the contract valid, do we give them directly or give the title company the money? I always heard you give earnest money to the title company but if its as low as 10$ can we just give the EM directly to the seller?