The reality is the opposite - if it's not in writing then the PMC doesn't have to provide the service or can charge extra for it!

I’ve used both platforms you mentioned and they seem to be at opposite ends of the rental spectrum and see what you mean.

In most states confidentiality is only owed to the client of the licensee, and not to the people on the opposite side of the transaction.

No,but doesn't bother me because I'm the opposite of fragile.

Opposite applies if the place was listed 6 months before going contingent and then went contingent and so on..

The reality is the opposite - if it's not in writing then the PMC doesn't have to provide the service or can charge extra for it!

., excellent advice and agree that it is about safety, not ethnicity. 

(i did the opposite as you, went to college in Nashville and relocated to Austin after!)

Generally I'd say the gurus do the opposite of making real estate investment look like rocket science.

Everywhere I have traveled this year, New York, Paris etc Hotels are much cheaper than VRBO/AIRBnB and the experience and safety, location, quality of beds, bathroom fixtures are better at Hotels, but 5-10 years ago it was the opposite.