So you are gonna sue and spend thousands to collect maybe a few hundred in penalties?

The agent you spoke to is probably referring to the crazy boom of the covid years where buyer's literally had zero negotiating power. 

We made a few hundred thousand on the sale over our purchase price, but we had the deferred profits of 3 -1031 exchanges to pay up.

like what most people don't get about the AI is that, currently, in 2024, the AI will become a sudden giant because there's world war three among data centre elephant and data modeler : microsoft vs google vs meta vs amazon, they are the one that's buying thousand of nvidia gpu with the hop one day that one small company or startup can replace the incumbent like google , pfizer All their purchase makes every single nvidia employee can buy a house in santa clara county easily lol. it would impact REI by a lot later on as employment and employability or group of persons would change.

Realistically out of thousands of open houses agents in my office have held open, I'll be no more than 2 or 3 have sold to someone who visited on the open house. 

@Brandon ClarkI am very sympathetic to CA investors wanting to invest in lower cost markets... but just to be very direct with you: -OOS is a LOT more challenging than advertised; and-50K is not a lot to start with.I genuinely think you will be more successful in a higher cost market that you can spend time in, rather than a random ,"lower cost" market thousands of miles away where you find something that looks nice on Zillow, spend your entire $50K on it... and then it needs a big rehab you weren't aware of, and you're negative $27K in year 1. 

Even if I were found guilty, the cost would be in the thousands, not in the millions.

What you posted literally defines what I told you.

----- Ummm because of what was literally just said about them in this post???

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