Never hurry with people who are in a hurry, slow way down.

In the case of 1 man with truck and tools, yeah, they need the deposit because they don't have the funds to finance your job, nor the funds to chase their money, nor to put food on their table if they dedicate their time to your job and payment is slow. 6k is not even half in one of my credit card monthly bill.

We want to make sure things are running as smooth as possible.I'm sure you know, and in full disclosure, we fired one of the local Provides we used to work with there because of poor communication, slow response, and declining performance (on their properties and management). 

We have seen spec homes in new construction slow down, not a crawl but very slow on starts. 

However, it is a slow strategy.

I was thinking people might be looking to get out of them after all of the Covid stuff and possibly a slow season.

It is a rural market with slow growth.

And, it's a Latin country; so things do run slow regardless.I did hold off on creating a company, because it may not be worth it for just one property.

Of course, there are no guarantees that mortgage rates will come down, but most economists agree that post Fed rate hikes - the economy slows, inflation comes down - and mortgage rates historically come down as well.

It seems as of the air is being let out of the balloon at a very slow pace.