So refreshing to hear how Brandon got started, and shared same emotions and doubts we all may be having during the beginning stages of this process.

Since this house has cracks in the bricks (and you have not yet determined if there are issues with doors or windows or cracks in plaster), it may be having significant settlement issues affecting the structure, which could be costly to fix.

We have decades and decades of evidence on how local and national real estate behaves.

@Marian SmithThank you, I didn’t want to think she was being unreasonable, and I want to meet her halfway but yes before her lease comes up I will be having that conversation with her.

., get his EMD back plus some spending cash) he needs to behave like he's willing to see it all through to fruition. 

Look at the cost for the basic 'everybody who behaved and needs to moveout gets this amount of money'. 

ESAs should be well-behaved.

As time has rolled on the powers that be have used this as a way to push more owners of the COC line.Timeframe is normally around 3-4 months give or take.  

And long term I still think CA will be having the appreciation factor!

There is no way to know if the future will behave similar to the past for either of these RE markets.