Residences and cars are not purchased in individuals names.  

Does a tech firm really need to pay a CA located cpu engineer $300kyr when have national reach of hundreds/thousands equally qualified happy to do it for $200k....... 

They require tax returns, voter registration, car registration, driver license, and utility bills in the app to prove it's your primary.

I’ve tried to do a retreat of A-frames in the mountains but ran into land/engineering issues, multiple times. 

Thanks Carl, I will check it out. 

So most agents are only putting about half of that $12k in their pocket, and out of that $6k they have to cover all of their operating expenses: licensing fees, MLS/ Realtor Association fees, continuing education classes to stay compliant with licensing requirements, monthly "desk" fees/ technology fees to their brokerage, health insurance for themselves and their family, errors and omissions insurance (required), marketing, car, car insurance, gas, clothes, computer/ software, cell phone, closing gifts, signs, photography, staging if they offer that, etc.

I see these threads come up from time to time and no one mentions the lawsuit we are all most likely to have filed against us if our cars are titled in our personal name, the auto accident.

If any one can recommend a good REI focused lawyer or a building engineer to do a building survey then please let me know! 

If you're a single mom with student loans, a car payment, and living paycheck-to-paycheck, then $20,000 would be devastating and a reserve is critical.

Take their car.