Fortunately smoking grass will likely be legalized soon in your neck of the woods :-) This does not support your assertion that Dallas has averaged 5% appreciation over the last 20 years.

@Bryan Zuetel    I've never heard of it personally, but that doesn't mean the famously assertive FTB won't come after an investor.

But I say that with the assertion that I've considered staging several of mine and haven't done it and don't feel it kept me from getting the top of the market on any of those occasions. 

I am no lawyer, but my understanding is that by contracting with your buyer, you're agreeing to sell to them on a certain day, not asserting that you currently have the ability to close.Your mention of an assignment contract worries me a little: The whole point of double closing is that you are not assigning the contract, but rather buying directly from your seller and then selling immediately to your buyer.

I'd pay particular attention to the unique specializations between the types that @Joel Owens  called out.The typical leases and LL responsibilities will vary WILDLY between these two asset-types-- in fact, I think I can safely assert that they're at the opposite ends of the management-control and responsibility spectrums. 

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And their arrogant, rude and largely incoherent, incomprehensible assertions and demands, and their apparent sense of entitlement that somehow I am compelled to answer to them, is even more absurd.

I think asserting my articles as confirmation bias assumes these or these types of articles are the only ones I've read and that I had an agenda when I learned about this information. 

Things become invasive when you assert that you have every right to do it. 

Where "partial performance" exists, a party who has accepted partial performance by another party under the contract will typically be barred from asserting the "Statute of Frauds" in order to avoid meeting its own contractual obligations.