After 2 other deals fell apart came back to me. 

https://www.har.com/content/newsroom/Houston Real Estate Highlights in June Single-family home sales rose 1.8 percent year-over-year, with 8,518 units sold, the largest one-month sales volume of all time;Days on Market (DOM) for single-family homes declined from 50 to 48 days;Total property sales reached record levels, rising 1.7 percent, with 10,115 units sold – the first time that number has broken the 10-thousand mark;Total dollar volume increased 6.6 percent to slightly more than $3 billion;The single-family home median price rose 2.6 percent to $245,000, reaching an all-time high;The single-family home average price increased 4.3 percent to a record high of $316,463;Single-family homes months of inventory was at a 4.1-months supply, the highest level since last August and equal to the national inventory level;Townhome/condominium sales rose 4.9 percent, with the average price down 1.7 percent to $211,050 and the median price down 4.1 percent to $163,000;Leases of single-family homes climbed 4.7 percent with the average rent up 3.9 percent to $1,877;Volume of townhome/condominium leases fell 4.2 percent with the average rent up 6.7 percent to $1,662.

I realized I needed to find another vehicle to start building wealth and eventually fell in love with RE.

Whenever layoffs happened, I usually fell in the middle.

Well, attorneys sometimes act like prostitutes.....they assume whatever the client wants.

I guess the $10.00 clause would keep the towel bar fell off the wall.and the door knob is loose calls down but I tend to weed those tenants out at the initial showing..

When I went in to view the property cat urine smell hit me so hard I almost fell down. 

Her original new place fell through. 

I would have assumed that if the sale fell through, that new (hopefully higher) comps could be obtained with a new appraisal.

On the flipside, though, how many builders in 05-07 were salivating in markets just like what you're describing, and started major projects at the height of the demand cycle, only to be left with delinquent mortgages and vacant lots (or worse yet, vacant finished projects) when the bottom fell out all at once?