We had information that a $1.95m had been in play so that’s where we started, coming to mutual agreement on Christmas Eve.

If you want a sadly entertaining story about me frantically messaging the President, CEO, and CFO via Linked In on Christmas Eve because I was about to loose both my deposit and my house let me know. . .)From the inspection, I knew the house would need the big expenses of new plumbing and electrical.

If you had been anywhere in Highland Park on New Year's Eve, you would have heard hundreds of gunshots.I bought my house in Highland Park for $18,000 five years ago.

If you are new, eve with a RE agent, take a look at the availability, daily, in your market, learn the trends, learn what areas are hot, learn what will rent,sell, for what, size, upcoming areas/appreciation, what have they paid in the past in taxes is a good indication per sqft, condition, etc. 

If it's Christmas eve at 2 AM and your cat swallowed poison and you google search to find the house-call vet that'll come see your cat right now in the Bay Area on Christmas eve, I did the mortgage of the guy you will find.What he says he makes if you ask him: $300k/yr.His taxable income, what the IRS thinks he makes: $75k/yr.What the mortgage industry thinks he makes $175k/yr.What he really makes: who knows, it's an irrelevant question anyways. 

@Eve Oliver I will be sure to look up the local meetups and start attending as soon as I can.

I wanted to listen to something productive on my hour and a half drive to a friend's house for a new years eve party and downloaded the final episode of 2018 for the Bigger Pockets Money podcast.

Take a look at https://evepicker.com/category/blogs/listen/Best,Eve

Happy Friday Eve Everyone!

Eve Wang,The answers explained by Dave T are correct.