It's pretty much just a show of good faith.When an offer does get accepted, the realtor will generally ask you to provide certified funds for the earnest money, and will give you back your uncashed check.

Taxes, natural gas, electricity, or water?

This aggravated the guy that I had doing property management because he seemed to naturally drift towards to slum lord do the minimum possible mindset.   

She said she received an offer that she turned down, so naturally I got this number out of her before shooting out my offer.

Homeowners in distress are naturally afraid of entities.

My wife is an interior designer (commercial, licensed) and father in law owns his own HVAC company... so real estate seems like a natural fit for my family network.

Two appraisers certified they inspected the property however we know only one was present because I was the one to meet them at the building.

I am a risk taker by nature, but this seems extremely risky, borrowing money to borrow money (HML).

Naturally this makes the cost of Lubbock real estate lower, which in turn makes the rents relatively low compared to some other markets.

Now the beauty of it is this – while naturally he still needs to spend time doing showings, meeting with clients, etc. outside of those tasks he is able to get his “grunt” work done here at work.