When it comes to negotiating about money, you find out real quick whether the person with whom you are dealing is a respectable 'adult,' or behaves like a child who lies when they get caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

If they are older adults, carpet can be acceptable.

Per federal Fair Housing guidelines, you cannot have rules that are different for children than for adults - that would be discrimination.  

For some reason, none of the adults really wanted to loan a 12 year old kid 100K+ to invest either. 

I came to austin as a kid and as a young adult several times a month growing up.

We had considered living upstairs ourselves for a year, but we have lived in one bedroom condos our whole adult lives and as we are planning to start a family, we want a bit more space now for ourselves.  

He is retired military that wants to move back to Panama with his wife since his children are adults and on their own now and he just wants out of the property and out of the country with cash to move.

This is true for a lot of programs even if they are young adults and are not in school.

My biggest problem was being taken seriously by "adults" as I was still just a kid who thought I was an adult.Fact is, you can't even buy me a drink to talk about business.

Retirement is around the corner and my adult children have chosen other careers.