By tying it up in a contract, you prevent them from continuing to market it, and selling it to an actual buyer before a foreclosure wreck their financial world.Doing that with no intention of closing yourself if you cannot find a buyer is absolutely crappy behavior.  

To continue the metaphor, a train wreck, of course, stops everything and there's lots of cleanup before you can start over.Dunno if that helps.

Mike's point is that you asume the tenant will wreck it no matter.

It might be a big repair, but it could just as likely be a tenant who decides to stop paying, wreck the place, and force a long eviction.

There are "life events" that can wreck an installment deal, divorce, death, incapacitation, loss of job, bankruptcy, law suits by others, tax problems and the list goes on, I've even had buyers and sellers going to jail.

She was a wreck!

My CPA told me that I was a train wreck.

When the headlines talk about the gloom and doom in the central valley in California, I think they primarily refer to areas like Stockton, Merced, Fresno, and Modesto.I felt compelled to clarify the extent of problems, particularly in Sacramento, mostly because some of these posts seem to be glorifying headlines which have a train wreck mentality.

In either situation, you should have something in the lease to the effect that the landscaping should be in as good a condition at move out as it was at move in, so that it doesn't end up a wreck (well, eventually I think it will become a wreck because it is at a rental after all).

But the whole idea of arbitrarily 10Xing every goal in your life could be a train wreck if not handled with wisdom.