Also, you may get away with that in Red Bank, and being pet free can make sense in an apartment anyway, but in many markets and SFH you cut your own throat with that policy.

Fast forward 3 days later and we still don't have official application or signed lease, but they have sent us an email with extensive questions regarding the lease that have raised the last red flag (including a lot of quotes regarding state laws).

You might not find red hot deals on MLS, but it can be a treasure trove.

Because that initial base price sets the amount of the future increases to follow.New Construction On Housing Units May Come To A HaltCalifornia is already an extremely expensive place to build… there’s all kinds of fees, inspections, nature protection, red tape, etc.

The red tape worries us about lease to own (and the headache).

If it goes south for some reason that's a red flag.Although, personally, 24 hours is pretty short.

Put 25k down on it, and spend the other 15k sparkling it up. 

We are 11 days into escrow now and no red flags so far.

I find it difficult to believe that there were no red flags during the process. 

However, there hasn't been a ton of applicants, and every applicant has had red flags.