For example, if you plan to buy a home with a mortgage but you fail to make financing one of the conditions of the sale--and you aren't approved for the mortgage--you can lose your deposit on the home and could even be sued by the seller for failing to fulfill your end of the contract.An experienced real estate agent deals with the same contracts and conditions on a regular basis, and is familiar with which conditions should be used, when they can safely be removed and how to use the contract to protect you, whether you're buying or selling your home.4.

So we bought in a safe neighborhood, know our neighbors well, and have the basics when it comes to home security.

Do you feel safe living in another country and what about the laws there (e.g. being wrongly arrested and imprisoned vs. in the USA there's at least due process and our Constitutional rights)? 

It depends on the safe harbor rule that the platform is using.  

Given how the market is right now, I thought "better safe than sorry" and I'll give him 3% on this deal.I'll probably get that 3% back on my next purchase anyway ;)

I assume the gas would have been shut off and its now safe to inspect the rest of the home.  

I really see Columbus Ohio as an extremely safe bet for the next 10-20 years.

So with that disclaimer out of the way… Tulsa is a fairly safe bet.

Im not a college rental investor, but if it were up to me I would target an area that is safe, clean, high traffic, and a large university. 

Sometimes holding onto a property feels like the safe move, but the potential gains from reallocating equity to multiple assets is a game-changer.