they are a non accredited pay to play orginization.. while they do some nice meet ups and have basic info.. does not mean that any lender that pays to be a member is a better lender than the thousands of us that are not members..

Playing small won’t serve you or your family.

It is fair to express your disappointment that they exceeded the cost target you gave them. 

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These are you law abiding, working, fair % families probably plenty with US born kids. 

That's a power play. 

Is this a cash-flow play or an apprecation play?

We had success in summerlin with insurance company paying .. over a 24 month period we had 3 tenants   fair market rent at the time was about 2200 or so non furnished.. we got 4100.00I did not like the turnover so I put it up as furnished rental and got 3500 and its going into its second year with a superb tenant. so seems like a happy medium for us.. 

Allow things to play out, unless the buyer closes sooner.

Compounding on one another sure that will have a big impact on the market but there are a lot of factors at play.