Everyone knows that cash offers mean, a lower offer, right?

He can't 'buy her out' as he does not have that much cash liquid.

If I bought a 55+ house for her now I would most likely pay cash for it.

As a realtor in the Boston area for the last ten years, and successful AirBnB owner up in NH, I’m ready to shift my focus to building a strong cash flowing portfolio.  

If you don't actually replace the damaged property, the insurer will normally only pay you the "actual cash value," i.e., the depreciated value of the property.

Good to know as I have a property coming on the market and we had one off market offer already all cash but at 10% list price discount (which we most likely will reject).Curious if you think the california fires will assist the market since many of those people need places to live for years and I am guessing some will flee california?

@Yooni ChoiFor a first property, $100/month in cash flow might not be ideal, but it’s acceptable, especially with a house hack.

that's $100K+ in cash PLUS a solid plan to achieve for that return. 

Purchase price: $900,000 Cash invested: $15,000 6BB/3.5Bath 4000sf on 3.4 acres near several wedding venues.

However, there's an obvious loophole to the claim because if you buy a house for 999K and then the value goes over 1 million then technically you're one of the 90% that just became a millionaire through real estate :) REIT investing is a much less active way of investing into the 11 major real estate sub-sectors, in the US we have 274 listed REITs on the major exchanges of NYSE and NASDAQ, and about 75-80 of them are not equity REITs but rather mortgage REITs, which I like to park cash in when 10yr yields are trending down to give me capital appreciation plus 14-15% dividend yields. check out alreits | Global REIT Researchto do more thorough individual research.