When I was in my 20s and 30s, it was easy to get a hotel room or rental home, spot on the beach, table at a restaurant, and traffic was a nonevent. 

When you get to the closing table you make sure you close around the middle of the month so you walk away from the closing table with all the security deposits (do they have to be in seperate accounts in your state?)

Sellers are slowly realizing there are fewer buyers and focused on working with those at the table.

Developed this by making a table in our 40 mile radius market.  

Does this all just come out in the end at the closing table?

Every time a guru “education” course was co pleated, I’d receive 10 -20 phone calls from either investor wannabes “building their team” in preparation for all the real estate “great” deals they were going to uncover or the same wannabes who had already identified a “great” deal (they hadn’t submitted let alone secured acceptance of an offer yet) and were lining up their financing which since they were purchasing at 50% of the value they’d end up with not only 100% financing but also walk away from the closing table with cash in their pocket.  

We brought 20% to the table.

This includes some major items like below upgrading septic to elgin septic system 20kupgrading electric to new cod 20ktree cutting trimming 10ktrench/French drain 10khvac replacement repair 10knew plumbing 10kcrawlspace repairs 10kappliances replacement 5kdoors replacement 5kmold repairs 3kroof repairs 3kother repairs It is in good location.

Tomorrow your current offer may not be on the table, and taxes won't matter then!

I mean, the buyer is the one bringing the money to the table so they've always *really* been paying it's just been shown on the seller's side of the settlement statement.