I've since paid of my mortgage and have no slavery inducing loans to service.

These funds usually come from the seller (or some other source) as a financial incentive to induce someone to buy their property.

Shelter is one of the basic human needs, hardwired way down in the lizard brainstem.You're showing up after years of allowing him to feed his innate tendency to believe that your place is his permanent home for many years, and at some point you're going to present him with the panic-inducing proposition that this is the end of his housing security -- you're not going to be renewing the lease.Ideally, he'll get over it.

But, all it takes is one grumpy old man to say he was induced to open the envelope and coered to sell his house to a government official.

Canceling the contract without proper justification (those reasons should be spelled out in the contract) will get you sued for "specific performance" and/or "fraud in the inducement" and the seller may well look for consequential damages.Proper justification for canceling the contract is normally limited to home inspection and mortgage approval. 

I'm not convinced that much retail will survive Amazon-induced apocalypse, r u? 

My daughter went with a Lenox furnace & a/c. 2 yrs later (2016) both the blower & inducer motors died???.

So is this market run real or low interest rate induced?

(Both are stress-inducing and strange considering they don't mimic the residential market, so be prepared for that).

I have read about (but never tried) offering to open a large CD for a 6 or 12 month term as an inducement.