Rule number 2:  The Option Consideration is NOT a deposit on the purchase, it's the cost of the Option Contract, and it should NOT be given as a credit toward the purchase of the property. 

Many investors I work with from the Bay Area are purchasing here and many people from the Bay Area are relocating here as work from home becomes more accepted.

My out of state clients are successfully BRRRRing and flipping here because they can find rentals around $120k to$180k purchase price.

Used my deployment money to purchase a property in Sacramento using VA loan. 

We typically ask the purchaser of the report to enter all 0's for the SSN which indicates to our screening team that a SSN is not available.

Typically a seller can't get out of a purchase contract once they agree to sell, but it's also rare for a court to force a sale if the seller just doesn't show up to closing.

It kind of depends on what your goals are, but you may be able to start consolidating your properties a little more with like-kind exchanges and/or purchasing larger properties where you could do cost-segregations on.

I have purchased many of the land courses and the land riches blueprint is the best I have seen. 

Purchasing a house in Bremerton, WA but we live in Nevada.

Reason for this is that our 40% partner who leads the group purchasing the property accepted a SUBORDINATED note for his interest in order to put the deal together.Bottom line is this, by utilizing a number of CREATIVE real estate principles, financing, deal making, etc. we have increased our wealth by anywhere from $235,000 to $635,000 over what we would have had accepting a cash sale.