She just started dating a home inspector, and he hypothesizes that there is mold in the townhome.

I would further hypothesize that 50k home markets present a lesser risk of default on owner occupant buyers as the median income is often in excess of 33% of the home's price, while low enough to disqualify people from other big ticket purchases. 20% of the REOs I've gotten in 50k home markets have been from owner occupants.

I’m looking for some insight from home buyers and real estate agents on a problem space I’m exploring related to the real estate buying process.CONTEXT -- It’s predicated on the following hypotheses:#1: Real estate agents spend a significant amount of time on client interactions with buyers - particularly answering their questions and improving their understanding with regards to contracts/documents on purchases, timelines of transactions, and how real estate processes work overall.#2: Jargon, bloat, and esoteric concepts in the documents/contracts make it intimidating and daunting for the home buyer to successfully parse them without the time, effort and most importantly trust of their agent.

Engineers won't ever say stuff like "It works great",  we have to show, prove evaluate and hypothesize, do a feedback loop, tweak test and then conclude with elaborate graphs and numbers.It's a curse I tell you.

I've since been looking for an appropriately located 4-6 unit building to test our hypotheses.  

:If you have insurance through work you will need to factor things like that in as well when you cut the cord.Well if you're not medicare eligible then I change my number to fourteen, Curious Bob, what makes you make a determination at 14 properties it seems there are a lot of assumptions and we dont even know the current expenses from Marc to even be able to start hypothesizing what income or amount of rentals he will need to quit his job.

If you mirrored the earnest money and had the assignee pay you directly, I would hypothesize that the assignee could just take over your earnest money position in the contract.

@Doug Pretorius I totally agree with you however I would hypothesize that there are some powerful persuasive dynamics that are present when negotiating an offer to purchase that are lacking in an option to purchase. 

Again - it's early, so the more we learn and hypothesize, the better equipped we will be when it comes time to put the deal together. 

My husband hypothesized that they had leftover trusses and block from the garage and just stuck them here  - LOL.