So, that got them motivated quick, like literally overnight! 

When the cleaners clean the bedroom, there's literally a cardstock with a greeting  on the pillows and inside the fridge there's some paper food note for them to enjoy the stay.

The book was LITERALLY over 6 inches thick!!!

That's the underlying problem and the advice is to use a loan product that literally is the opposite of that?

This post that you made is literally just asking to get scammed.

That felt extreme to us, especially since our money was literally going into the ether each month.

Yes, if you want to build that 3rd unit and provide additional housing to a desperately unaffordable state (California) that severely lacks housing, you literally have to leave it vacant if you move out and keep your house as a rental because the laws state you have to live in one of the units in order to rent the Jr.

Our market is literally built for STR as the communities are zoned and built specifically to be short term rentals.

Where the buyers Daughter is an agent and she is a Doctor literally an MD.. now she has been good to work with others not so much. 

I'm wondering how many just sent the deposit in to the person claiming to be the "owner".Here in the south you can sometimes (literally) get away with murder if you claim to be some type of reverend/ minister/man/woman of god/whatever which is exactly what this scammer was claiming.I report the ads to craigslist, they are pulled, only to show up again a few days later.