The last check should be the one that they use to put food on the table so they don't want to see it get smaller every day that the work isn't done.GET IT ALL IN WRITING.One last thought, also get a contractor lein release waver signed when they are done or when you fire them so that they don't attach a lein to your property.

Then 1 year later the market drops, you try to sell your home and find out you have to BRING cash to the table!

I googled a bit and found an interesting article (OPINION) outlining some reasons why "Kenny Boy" might actually turn the tables on Bush instead:http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/feature/2004/07/08/kenneth_lay/index.htmlBut do I think that will happen?

I had a friend who had mentioned over the dinner table about splitting up your mortgage payments into two payments so you pay twice a month.

I'm not an expert at options on homes by any means,but I hate to see your question just sitting here unanswered.By "double closing" you mean that you exercise the optionand buy the house, but at the close you bring *your* buyerto the table and they actually buy.The easier route, it would seem to me, would be to sell theoption outright to the new buyer.

Funds can be kept in trust and only used at the closing table for each transaction.

If one is purchasing near the median price there is generally +- 7% on the table before the transaction begins.

I want it bif enough for a table and chair then when you walk down the steps there will be a patio amde from pavers.

I agree 100%, every time I run an ad I get more and more calls from "investors" who want to point out to me where I'm leaving money on the table.

End of story.If you want a broker to do it for you, and they bringa buyer to the table and close...6% to them.3% for the seller (you) and 3% for the buyer.If the buyer was brought to them by a buyer's agent,then of course that 3% will go to THAT broker.If you are on the road to financial prosperity, know thatjealousy is a real killer of success.