I would have kept calm and placed my hands where they could see them while politely explaining my situation to the officers.

Be straightforward, calm, rational, and give folks a path to compliance and a mutually beneficial solution.

Buyer is calmed down, and I just put him in touch with the seller's attorney so he knows what is going on..

Once I learned this principle, I was able to remain calm as I worked through to a solution.4.Keep a Lessons learned log.

Scott, calm down, it's two homes amongst MILLIONS and they were GIVEN to me.

It was a freaking waterfall, if there hadn't been floor drains in the middle of the house it would have been really bad luckily it was only 4 or 5 inches deep.

At best, I calm her down and help her take joy in the transaction.

The idea of buying sight unseen felt risky for me too, but like you said David Greene’s book helped to calm a lot of those fears.

Again, other might feel differently here.b) Skin in the game: as a conservative investor, I understand that the dirty secret of industries that the waterfall compensation is in the line with me and incentivizes sponsors to take more risk.

Then we could graduate to the latter type of deal with one or more layers of equity in some sort of waterfall model.