All speculation without having all the details and that may not be acceptable to the seller.

Before Michael Quarles' post I speculated that out-of-state absentee owners may have a higher affinity towards a specific investment area, since they're taking more risk by investing there.

Right now it is easy for the public to be led to believe that investors are landgrubbing speculators looking to make millions off the suffering of innocent Americans.

One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation.

Infinitesimal is the probability of concern for him, and in moving forward boldly in real estate requires that one does not become paralyzed with far-flung speculation from people scared of things that they've heard of other people who know of people who have had such and such happen.

Until then, you play lawyer and speculate.

I think this becomes speculation.3. how should he be compensated?

I can only speculate, but I imagine their attorney just asked them if I had followed CRLTO's guidelines for security deposits. 

The only reason to defer the capital gain would be to reduce the tax liability in the event someone anticipated a lower tax burden/rate later on.There is also the potential that your purchasing power could be stronger in today's market than it would be in a future market and keeping that money in circulation will benefit your portfolio long term, but that is even more speculative than trying to determine what tax rate you will pay in the future, and the longer you plan to hold the resources before cashing out and paying the taxes the more speculative it is.

There is always a catch and given that the state is east coast, it is more of a speculative appreciation play than a good rent play.