Gear it towards cash flow instead of having to steal it on price.

Real estate is non-liquid, and to get your equity back you incur large expenses often and may need to access equity at a time when the market is down and steals a lot of it..Ah, but what about appreciation? 

You are banking on appreciation unless you get an absolute steal or a great of market deal.

Gotta get these weird layouts at an absolute steal.

(and wasn't there less than 5 mins prior, so think she was stealing it) I put it back, give her the check and receipts and ask her to sign saying she received the check and understands the charges for cleaning, carpet damage.  

He sounds like he may just be an oddball, as opposed to a crook, but who knows.  

Of course my kid wouldn't steal from me... the tenant is playing dumb..."

Wholesaling houses from widows and uneducated people stealing their only assets equity.

Or they could steal stuff.

Anyone with this information could literally just walk directly to the seller and steal the deal from me.