Hello everyone, i'm new to the site so please excuse me if i answer something you may have answered months ago.

Kenvest,Thank you so very much for your tangible legal fact, I’d just called my realtor’s staff manager in regards with "time is of the essence", without a pause, he then tells me it’s already on the contract, he was stuttering and said he’ll reread the contract after I asked him why did he agreed with me then when I though I would have to lose the 3% of the selling price for breaching the contract if I’d decided not to agreed with their last postponing and wanted out, in addition to my comment to him that there ought to have some kind of protection for my situation.Just myself to blame for not reading the contract thoroughly (rookie’s lesson # 1); took it for granted; relied on the realtor’s verbal review of the contract with me which appointments always set to be her last one of the day (whenever comes to signing anything) and under a time pressed that she’d to leave soon to pick up a member of her family… I would have dropped this deal if she’d elaborated that term especially when the seller is not responding to my asking of some kind of compensation (naturally, since I’d agreed to their last postponing without using that as a leverage at the same time), let along she didn’t let me know about the property is in a flood zone until the last minute when I’d to signed off my contingencies (supposedly a week prior that they’d even admitted but with an excuse) and reluctantly went through with this deal since I’d spent so much time and effort on this property already, on top of the $1K spent on “two“ inspections along with the upfront appraisal… 101 other reasons for me to make a snap decision now to drop this deal in a heartbeat without worrying the losing of 3%!

Not excuses to move ahead.

Either you will find a way or find an excuse.

But clients don't want excuses, so you need a way to manage your time and leverage resources to get it done.

I guess there is always an excuse when prepping for the first move, right?

It is amazing how much easier it is- no more waiting on the post office, or listening to excuses about the check's in the mail...We did convert people gradually as leases were being renewed- I think all tenants really like it now that they are doing it- they have more options on how to pay- they can go to the bank and make the deposit or setup recurring deposits that are automatically transferred from their account to ours. and they get a receipt showing their rent was paid at the time it is paid.  

Call it an excuse but I don't have much time for a large remodel at the moment and doing a quick turn around on this would gain some confidence from my not-supportive wife.

I want to take as many forms of payment as I can so my tenants don't have any excuse.

Waiting is just an excuse not to take action.