I've pasted it below.DEPOSIT TO RESERVE RENTAL UNITLandlord / Lessor: Southern Angel Properties, LLCApplicant Name: ________________________________________________Rental Unit Address: _____________________________________________Applicant Phone: _________________Email: ________________________________________The undersigned applicant has hereby given a NON-REFUNDABLE holding deposit in the amount of $________ to reserve the rental unit listed above until __________.The Applicant understands and agrees that this non-refundable holding deposit will later be applied towardFirst month’s rent of $___________ Security deposit of $_____________ Other: _________________________________$_________If the Applicant fails to pay the balance of first month’s rent and the security deposit in full, if any, by the date above, the Lessor will no longer be obligated to reserve this unit for the Applicant and will have no obligation to rent ANY unit to the Applicant, and the Applicant will forfeit $_________ / all of the holding deposit.In addition, if the Applicant is approved by the landlord, but changes his/her mind about renting,the Applicant will forfeit $_________ / all of the holding deposit.IMPORTANT: Any false or misleading information provided by the Applicant will result in forfeiture of the ENTIRE HOLDING DEPOSIT without question or exception.Applicantshall be entitled to a full refund of the holding deposit within ____ days if:·The landlord does not approve the Applicant ’s rental application, or·The unit becomes unavailable.

Otherwise, you are overpaying for a property that is going to cost you more than you can collect every month AND you are going to have $ 40,000 tied up and unavailable to put into a deal that makes you money every month.

But that is a ways off.One nice thing is that I work from home, so moving is not an issue, nor is unavailability for fixing an urgent maintenance issue.

Many people pay the taxes before the close, so there's no sense wasting a bid on a certificate that my become unavailable right before the close.I've spent a little more time looking at last year's auction results and realized that the top 6 winners, based on amount they purchased, all had bidder numbers in sequential order (except one bidder but I'll explain).When you sign up to participate in these online auctions, they assign you a Bidder Number.

But, you act like it is unavailable anywhere.

We've converted hot water systems and steam systems to hot air, we've added central air and where nat gas is unavailable we have installed electric heat pump.According to the gas industry the supply of nat gas just in PA. is over 100 years.

We also have Yardi -> mySQL backups via scripts (PHP, shell) on linux linux systems... so we have access to our $millions in transactional rental data in the highly unlikely (but not impossible) case that system becomes unavailable.

But I did get a local Portland OR number, which was unavailable through Ring Central and a few other providers.

Unfortunately, there was a member who misused and mistreated the forum rules in that thread, so it was shut down by the administartor and all the good information and posts by others is now unavailable.

You could start a meetup group....surely you are not the only one who is unavailable mid-week.