It is up to the buyer to determine their own incentive and timeline, but if the agent feels like they are just wasting time and not going to get a transaction, the buyer is likely to be back-burnered since agents only get paid when a transaction occurs.

@Nate LaBlance while @Stuart Udis has some great advice, we do NOT recommend letting an agent do your tenant screening.First off, they have a CONFLICT OF INTEREST - they don't get paid until they place a tenant.

I’m in CA also and paid cap gains on huge profits to the tune of 28%, which included CA state cap gains.

And I actually think I have as much fun finding the deals and seeing the transformation of the houses we do as I do collecting the rent checks, that it would be really hard to give that up. 2) How many of those do you have paid off, if any?

So, there is a greater change of getting paid in the end.

Say you paid 100k 6 years ago and have done nothing to improve the property value.

In those cases, the main criteria we add to our lease is that everyone that comes to stay there must be subject to a background check paid by the company.

Role-playing.     . you paid $300k 10 years ago, it’s worth $660k, (so when you sell you net $600k to make math easy.)and your cpa determined that you owned zero land, so it’s all depreciatable. you owe 15% on the $300k gain plus 25% tax on $109k depreciation recapture, so you owe $70k in federal taxes, then California reaches out for another $30k?  

A nearby city with a lot of highly paid engineers.

We paid cash.