Many buyers have backed out of those deals and forfeited their earnest money and of course those deals never show up as comps.

If late on rent or late to get a loan, all is forfeited.

If a property is not filed on by the deadline this year, the property owner will forfeit any right to a refund for tax year 2023/24 and have to wait another entire year before being able to file. 

The more important point is that you will forfeit your right to bring suit for damages to the property unless you give the 30-day notice. 3.

Your due diligence on the property should be done before the hearing.Here in CA if you can't close after your 10% deposit is accepted (the winning bidder) you'll forfeit your money..

Your wife could still represent the buying side and forfeit her commission.

If the offer for my LLC where I own less than 100%, I don't negotiate my comissions - it's my income just like everyone's else - thats what I do for living.Some banks have disclosure that if an agent buys the property in their name or their LLC name, the comissions are forfeited.

I believe we would continue to qualify for FHA financing, but I'm not sure if there are any other first-time-homeowner aids that we would be missing or forfeiting by buying an investment first.  

On the first one I did I went from 1 (in CA) to 3 (in TX).The day I got the finalized contract for the sale (and had great confidence of it going through-there was a separate payment to me that would be forfeited if they failed to close-but credited to purchase price) I revisited 8 properties in 2 days and started writing offers.I didn't see the "locked up" equity as a problem.

The auction contract says the auctioneer get 50% of the forfeited deposit.