What I'm going to say is I see people who have experienced success in this arena, analyze many practice deals before they put their money down on the table for a real deal.

Larger homes provide more opportunity to make the home unique and capture larger families/groups to share the expenses of one home vs renting 2-3.

Most will likely stick to the technical limit of Sept 2021 when it ceased being a primary residence, but some may be comfortable going by the address on the 2021 return and others may explore a partial exclusion, depending on the reasons for your move abroad.If you'd like to read up on the technical rules, the IRS publication 523 gets into more detail than most people would like to know, but it does have some helpful tables and examples for different scenarios.

The only thing unique to these coaches is that you pay them thousands of dollars for brainwashing, sorry, I mean, "motivation".Now I don't know anything about Joe Mccall but everything the OP posted screams snake oil salesman.

Title insurance, settlement fees, and recording fees can vary, so you could request updated estimates as you get closer to the closing date.If you’re expecting to stay under $5,000 out of pocket, double-check the loan estimate to ensure this aligns with your DPA and the amount you're being asked to bring to the table at closing.

its against HUD rules to acept money under the table. 

When you get to the closing table you make sure you close around the middle of the month so you walk away from the closing table with all the security deposits (do they have to be in seperate accounts in your state?)

Having all of these details upfront definitely puts you in a unique scenario.

However if you purchase a unique property with a view, close to town, etc.

Sellers are slowly realizing there are fewer buyers and focused on working with those at the table.