If you are worried about your buyer snaking your deal, then you got the wrong buyer. 

They can be snaked and cleared out.

(Make sure you don’t use the the metallic hoses that look like snake scales/knight armor joints.

first agent gives a realistic price  second agents say oh thats crazy we can get more with nothing to really back it up.. listing sits there second agent calls and says  hey we need to lower price to move this and the prices comes right down to the first agents price point and the second agent gets the sale by basically snaking the first agent.

And you've got to pay attention to those types of catches so to speak this business has been around for many years and at the end of the day those types of things are few and far between so you got to be careful of who the snake oil salesman or saleswoman is as a general rule these types of strategies are out there can be executed and done.So i'm not saying they can't be done it's just that they're few and far between for the average joe out there so the options out there are go with traditional type of financing i.e fannie mae freddie mac fha your normal mortgage lending and financing right that's one avenue where you're going to get your lowest interest rate with your least amount of money.

For example, not all have snakes to snake out a basement in case of a flood so be sure you have one that can do that. 

But that is the very reason that I try to, best I can, keep a detached demeanor with them because I never want a tenant to think that our primary relationship is anything more than landlord-tenant (or lessor-lessee, from the other thread, or my favorite "God of Thunder, Overseer-serf" ;)  ) in case it goes somewhere that requires unpleasantness.

I feel like over the last few months we have dodged a few bullets by getting a few properties snaked out and are preparing to not be so lucky one of these times. 

He could also have a cat, bird, snake, dog, pig or even a small pony as an emotional support animal.

You have a great philosophy in regards to paying to learn as much as you can.In 1972 I paid $6,000 to go to a one-day seminar and everyone said I was crazy, but I learned many things that day that stuck in my head and many of those things helped helped me to make my business much more successful.I wrote what I did because I'm burned out from going to too many real estate club meetings where they bring in snake oil salesment, but I should have stated that there are some legitimate companies.