Buyer gets cold feet, backs out before dropping off option fee / earnest money.Day 44 - Submit highest and best offer to bank, for offer #3.Day 60 - Bank comes back, tells me to write a report to challenge price to get offer accepted.Day 67 - Offer #3 is accepted.

But rarely.Find a house on MLS, go look at it while having agent write up my offer.

Do you allow them to write a check or pay cash or cashiers check?

My web address goes on all of my bandit signs, direct mail campaigns and classified ads.There are other software solutions out there (realeflow) you can use or you can pay a web designer to program a custom one for you.Btw, if you are the same Mike who emailed me, I tried to respond but my email got bounced back to me.

If you can't do that before you have to write an offer, make some assumption then add a contingency to allow you to verify that contingency.

If you're the LEAST bit antsy about their ability to repay, trust your gut, don't do the deal.Oh, and unlike my Landlord, get it in writing.

There are many software applications for property management, but if you don't have lots of units, QB works just fine

Anyone has any advise on how to write up the loan agreement with my friends?

I never seem to be able to remember to write my mileage down when I visit properties or other deductible trips.

Your only two arguments would be the other offer is too low and won't be accepted, you're wasting time even allowing the bank to look at it... or, because my offer is higher, the bank write off will be smaller and therefore the tax bill you get for that write off will be less.