To document cost basis in the past I have used the assessed value on some occasions and appraisals on others, IRS had no issues either way.

In any occasion, if you can stay on track and retire at 34, you'd be living right.

On another occasion an investor teamed with someone and they acquired a $30k CFD for $21,000 and it’s non performing.

Buy on ACTUALS if it’s the sellers position that it’s “easy” to fill in the blank, then he should do it.

I have taken "flyers" on occasion on homes when I see the owners are deceased and there is no mortgage.

I'm really surprised they didn't leave blanks on these kinds of things so that the contingency period can be any number of days you want.

I suspect the car was rented or leased for such an occasion. 

In general for podcasts, I've found that the first bunch of episodes are the best, and then it goes downhill, for reasons discussed here more or less (read the first paragraph, and fill in the blanks to make it podcast specific).

Anyway, I will say this - Obama mastered dumbed-down campaigning and taught us that no one knows what a "$5,000 refundable tax credit" is but everyone knows what "change and hope" is because it's so nondescript that they filled in their own perception into the blanks and assumed Obama was thinking the same thing they were.

Make sure you keep your tetanus shots up to date.I've dealt with that lesson on multiple occasions.