@Cheryl J McGrath  Personally I don't see why any RTO buyer would enter into an agreement  and put down money if you don't own the house yet. 

The only exceptions I can think of are a lack of experience frustrating your financing process or where the GC has such a well established brand that a buyer will pay a premium for a home built or renovated by that particular contractor.

As an investor buying rental properties, the buyer should never have to pay a fee to purchase something. 

Jonathan, just to clarify the process: After I get seller under contract t, I then find the end buyer, and the second contract is between the agent and the end buyer.

Also, are they closing on the spot or just prospecting?

First impressions matter and presenting a property in its best light can attract potential buyers and increase its market value.

June 2nd, 2023State Farm and Allstate have stopped selling new insurance policies to California homeowners, erecting a new obstacle for home buyers.

You need to make sure that your property is easily financeable if you decide to sell it in the future and any future buyer can call out non-permitted items and actually report you to the building department or, at a minimum, ask for seller concessions.

Take for example, while representing buyers in single family transactions, during the negotiation, I ALWAYS ask the sellers to credit the buyer(s) up to 3% of the asking price toward the buyers costs.

They called me the other day and said they had a property they had a buyer into for 270k but they would take 260k from one of my clients cause they never worked with the other guy before.