My concern is providing astronomical amounts of money (myself or a buyer) for homes where sellers' agents are requesting certain percentages upfront.

The sheer cost associated with lead abatement at the scale required to ensure ALL lead paint disappears from housing would be astronomical and would bankrupt almost every landlord in the state if an order was handed down to make it all happen. 

No matter how much planning a city/county does, it can still end up on the short end of the stick.The obvious solution would be to bury the powerlines, but the cost for that is astronomical. 

It's astronomical rise in cost of living is relatively recent, the past 15-20 years.  

My property manager sent their contractor that gave me an astronomical bid.

real estate license at 18  get in the trench's  ( Northern CA) buy home in Milpitas and roll up Astronomical gains in northern CA and Oregon over time..

@Brad Larsen, I owned a branch company that managed about 70 vacation rentals and it's a different world from managing long-term.The amount of work required is astronomically higher.

These seemingly random and frequent investigations by code enforcement who's sole job is to "find something wrong" is going to create astronomical costs that people who are owner occupied in their homes would not even think is an issue.

Some/many areas in TX/FL have astronomical insurance, multiples of their supposed "high taxes" --- they really should come to NJ those wimps :). 

I think the cost was astronomical.