I have never used eBay so I thought it might be some kind of auction site that automatically collects the money from the buyer and pays it to the seller.

Once the money hits the account, it's automatically transferred to their account.The benefit of this is your tenants don't get your actual account number, in case they do decide to get froggy.

Now, before I sound like a Nun teaching 7th grade english, I'll call it an option payment.Any time you say "rent credit" that is an automatic requirement for an appraiser to state in an appraisal what the fair market rents would be for that property.

They do radiology diagnosis for U.S. hospitals in smaller towns during the night shift.

Shift their focus back to the cause of their pain and how earnest money is not a solution - a buyer is.

Adding "negative points" is sure to invite automatic votes down from people that run into scrapes with others.

I have a pretty dire outlook for the US right now also, thanks to the politics and the shift to majority that require subsidized living.

This will prevent the deck from shifting since we will not be attaching the deck to the house.

An important point to make is that the sale contract be extended upon a written request (and perhaps additional consideration for the down payment) making sure that the extensions are not automatic.

My understanding (I am not an attorney) is that there is an automatic stay issued in these situations until the creditors are satisfied.