This shifts incentive for the realtors within LS from providing good service and bagging repeat business to just be agressive in tagging properties.This is in stark contrast to the vendors who are not allowed to tag properties and thus always have an incentive to provide good service and gain repeat business.Remember you have already paid $10k, so you are going to work with the realtors within LS rather than external realtors.- LS uses a catch phrase "Real Estate is Easy, People are difficult" implying that RE is easy, you just need to be able to deal with various temperaments of various people involved in the sealing of a deal.

So, the purchase price can be very close to the same, but there are less notes available too.The next issue is that the institutional types don't have as many tools in the bag as a local broker may.

I store the old locks in ziploc bags to keep everything together -- including the keys.

Good for you Sunny, glad it at least left you feeling somewhat better and the dirt bag got no further ahead.

One of the signatures is his and one appears to be a forged replica of my own.

First thing I would do is tent off bathrooms with tubs an showers and demo surrounds and floors, bag it all up and get it out.

When I first got my license.... way back when, someone told me, after your buyer signs the contract, hand them a bag of M&M's, and tell them to take them for the "buyers remorse" that natually comes afterwards.

Your underlying policy pays $500k, your umbrella pays $250k, and you hold the bag for $500,000.Of course, this might be moot.

Which is fair, most of the scum bags in this industry make my life more difficult.  

You can also pull out a napkin from your Hardees bag and write up a contract on that, just you and the seller (or buyer).