For sellers, this means that setting the right price from the start and presenting your home beautifully are more crucial than ever.Time is also a factor to consider, with the median time to contract rising to 35 days—a 59.09% increase from last year.

Corey, it well could be an issue with the regulators as they will see it as a requirement to make the loan and doing so opens the door to the issues I mentioned and perhaps more depending on state laws.Additionally, this may not be a subject to take up with most RE attorneys as financing conflicts are really not their bag, ask an attorney who represents banks or lenders.

The trash isn't like trash bags on trash day, it is like empty coke bottles, or empty chip bags.

Instead of average monthly job gains of 242K, it was actually 174K — a downward revision of 28%.Fed minutes let the cut out of the bag.

When we rehabbed, we pulled up all carpets and found that the old wood floors could be sanded/polished/waxed ,so I then hired someone to sand/polish/wax the floors in all rooms and they turned out beautifully.

Never took an hour to remove it or an hour to install it. 1. shut off water supply line(turn handle) 15 seconds2. flush toilet 10 seconds3. vacuum and drain water 2 minutes maybe 4 lay out cardboard(from toilet box) put out trash bag5 remove 5/16 nuts one on each side with hollow shaft nut driver 2 minutes6 pick up toilet and place into bag 2 minutes7 clean up old wax ring from flange and inspect flange 2 minutes8 place wax ring 1 minute9 install new flange bolts 1 minute 10pick up toilet and place on new ring if you didn’t ring right maybe 5 minutes 10 tighten down new bolts 2 minutes 11 cut bolts and install caps 2 minutes 12 reinstall water line 1 minute and turn on 13 flush to check for leaks 14 caulk back of toilet seal if you choose 1 minute15 carry away toilet to truck 10 minutes tops. this a 30 minute job.

The first time we rented from them our neighbors were selling meth and leaving bags of meth and dirty needles all over the complex.

Thank you Don, I really appreciate it and you illustrate the point beautifully.

I always make sure that my clients qualify for the "take out" financing (long term refinance) on the back end BEFORE I get them into hard money/private money so they are not stuck holding the bag with very expensive debt. 

Her home can NOT look like she packed a bag and walked out.