Anyone can elect not to use a mortgage contingency, and still obtain one, they merely waive the mortgage as a contingency.

I'm merely pointing out that if you have a small amount of money to invest, the best strategy to grow that money is to get maximum velocity on it.

While I don't know your personal capabilities or background, the objective should not be to merely purchase real estate, it should be to execute on an opportunity where you do right by your capital providers. 

In today's most real estate transaction, we don't have free market, what we have is mere duopoly/monopoly system with price fixing.

Your last sentence is making me re-think how I should approach my next seller.

The city’s vacancy rate has plummeted to a mere 1.4%, the lowest since 1968, amidst a stark imbalance between housing supply and demand.Despite adding 60,000 homes, the population surge of 275,000 households has left only 33,000 rental units accessible.

But over the long run, it's not the magic investment everyone thinks when you factor in that it merely keeps pace with inflation in the LONG run.

Hi Molly,Since, you are merely using one loan to pay off another, it doesn't seem like an efficient use of capital (especially if the loan you are paying for the primary has low rates).

Again, if the use of the card is merely toi help advance the purchasing of longer lead items until the bank draws hit, that's a different story. 

BUT, the mere fact that you are attempting to place a lender in a position in which they will now ostracize all other non-LGBTQ customers is a clear violation of the same regulations put in place to protect you and all other cousmers in the first place and is why they will decline to work with you in this manner... you are forcing them to encroach on the rights of other cosumers to access their services, which is a violation of the cosumer safety regulations impossed on them.