Unfortunately the additional fee disproportionately impacts smaller projects (I recently paid the same acceleration fee for  $600,000 SF renovation as I just did for a $2.5M school building conversion). 

For example, if your property is a SFR and your target buyer is a family with younger children then you'll see more movement in the months where school is out so that the children wouldn't be changing districts mid-year (not that this doesn't happen though).

We’re thinking it could be seasonality, especially since our place is ideal for families and perhaps most families have done their moving for the year before school starts.

- It's after Labor Day when all kids are back in school and as a result, the market has slowed. - It'll slow even more after Halloween.- It may be cheaper to see if you can negotiate a reasonable extension fee with your HM lender and continue to try to sell.DM us if you'd like to chat more...

My fiancé is applying to medical schools and would start school in the fall of 2025.

@Cherilyn Williams Welcome to the school of hard knocks!

I absolutely love real estate, and I already own a rental property in Alabama, where my last school was.

Meaning, since there is a school near by, yearly school bill is about $1,700, then we have the property tax and the Kennesaw tax.

IMO, it is the lack of education (not schooling, but how to clean, teach your kids to respect their living space, etc) that causes the issues, and you have that whether it's a single adult household paying with a voucher, or a two adult household, who both have low pay jobs. 

Crowdfunding is essentially old-school syndications that use newer regulations that allow them to market over the Internet.