This situation would infuriate me, in fact my blood is boiling just thinking about someone I'm paying ghosting me for 10 days.

Persistence is your life blood in this game.  

It's in his blood.

We'll need three years of tax returns and the blood of a virgin unicorn.

Of course, what warm blooded male would not want a lambo in the garage!

I will wait to avoid any bad blood.

Save your blood pressure and thick skin!

You may need to shop quite a while, plan on rehab or wait until market conditions favor buyers (then be brave because buying when there is blood in the streets is scary).

But my aunt and I worked fast to get him out legally (bite the bullet and get a lawyer)No bad blood but lesson(s) learned.

The more complex things get compared to that "baseline," the more appealing it likely is (this is probabilities game) to work with someone that isn't forced to take the table scraps from a marketing department, because they're able to bring it in the door with things such as their competence, or other attributes/deliverables.A company I once worked for was recently purchased by a big discount real estate brokerage, I stay in touch with my old colleagues (there's no bad blood or anything).