Its been vacant for 21 days now I’ve had it down to 1200 for weeks and just added $500 off first months rent.

He insisted that a phrase be added that the money is to be released upon completion "and not upon approval by the seller." 

If I had a large amount of liquid capital, do you think I should use it to purchase fixed assets or for some project development, which would be more suitable?

I have a close associate with a large project there and the local banks have turned off the spick-et on funding his developments and these are very large multi thousand acre deals.

Quote from @Saika Maeda: Hi all, I’m almost in escrow with this single family home in LA with an un-permitted large ADU with a Certificate of occupancy. 

The seller can supply everything they used to market, pictures, ad copy, etc., but they cannot sell their AirBnB account to another person.

Quality over quantity is a ridiculously underrated point on here, despite some of us stating this ad nauseum. 

This added demand for rentals drives up rents.You must invest in a city with significant and sustained population growth to have rents outpace inflation.

We recently looked at a property outside our agents area (2 states away) and found a fee that was added which we questioned and were told it was a mistake and was removed . . . not sure if it was a mistake but be sure to read these new contracts BEFORE signing as things have changed since August.

We buy in bulk at Sam's.We get a large pump body wash from Walmart.He get decorative hand soap dispensers and buy large jugs to refill all these.