In Alaska Bar Association Ethics Opinion #88-2, the committee declared "circumventing a contract term under these circumstances is not fraud or fraudulent conduct.

If you don't show intent, it is fraudulent.

His advice in that book is to take on shorter projects to combat the risk of rising interest rates hurting prices in the near-term. 

Still, I expect that a modified anti-rental proposal will be coming in the future.Do you have suggestions on how to combat this kind of discrimination against landlords and tenants?

That means that a court could find that you have a binding contract, even without EMD.You can play hard ball and tell that agent that you're going to file a complaint with the state's Real Estate Commission and see if that gets you anywhere.If, as was said above, that agent was trying to wholesale your property (not sure how to prove that), he could be in violation of a tort known as "Fraud in the Inducement", meaning that he fraudulently caused you to enter into a contract that he had neither the intent nor the ability to complete. 

The DD was definitely on you, and you need to own that, but there is a possibility that there were either fraudulent statements made, or misrepresentations on the seller's part that could open them up to some financial liability. 

Good communication can combat some of these challenges.

He never went through probate and fraudulently signed a deed from his mother to him right after her death.

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With my clients on commercial retail they send in lender deposits but the lender is well known and capital markets contact has closed over 100 million of loans with them and know they do not re-trade.Now there are times when it is not a lenders fault such as seller gives you fraudulent information and cash flow income of the property is not what is stated.