Is it recession proof or super recession sensitive?

They are doing you a favor by shining you off now instead of midway through a project when real money and time sensitive actions are at stake. 

At least that way (like others mentioned) you can, if you choose to show the sell that the numbers don’t work out if you were to offer more and you weren’t try to insult them.But as a side note, and I don’t mean this as a direct insult to anyone here that is a broker (because I don’t know any of you personally) but I have dealt with many, many brokers over the last 30 or so years and even had a major issue like what I am about to say, with our own personal property purchase, but sometimes brokers can either ruin a deal or even worse, can lie through their teeth and attempt to sabotage a deal if they feel you are not offering enough because that means their commission will drop too.

If they want to stay, have them sign "your" lease at your price and put some late fees in there that have some teeth so they'll be encouraged to pay on time.

3) BP members will see why some borrowers don't get funded and how you can AVOID their mistakes (of course, I will not share sensitive info about my borrowers - NO names and contact info will be shared); and4) BP members will understand HOW TO RAISE CAPITAL (do you know that private lenders also lend other people's money, not just their own?)

I need a job with some "teeth" and from what I have researched, this sounds like a great start.I am looking forward to learning more about the challenging world of REI.Cheers-Jason

We closed by the skin of our teeth.

I've done it twice now and the last one was by the skin of my teeth that it went through because of the marginal neighborhood.

I want to know your thoughts about something that I realize is a sensitive subject in our present day and challenges my own industry.Call it career suicide, but I offer no apologies for opening this discussion because I'm hopeful that it will spark some interesting ideas amidst what I know is an intellectual group of people.If I'm wrong about anything in the post, PLEASE speak up, and tell me.

You are correct, many of these areas are sensitive to location.