To add more injury to insult they asked me to provide my business and personal bank statements, to ensure that I was financially suitable to be making/receiving the type of money compared to the deposit they had on hold.

My thoughts on how we let the whole thing happen goes back the conception of the federal reserve system by a group of competing bankers in secrecy (all public data now).

Here is the meat of it:Statistics compiled by data aggregator RealtyTrac hint at the magnitude of the problem nationwide.

Here is an article that points out how the data from lenders is not to be relied upon without scrutiny from outside the industry.

If you don't have actual MLS sold data, you don't have the full story on prices.

I deduct all that sort of stuff, also any subscriptions or fees that I have to pay to acquire data. my cpa says that is fine.

Please ensure to read what I say and not just go off of how you feel.

I'd look at the Case Shiller home price data and compare that to inflation.

You'll find enough data here at the site to get started for sure.

What process can you take to ensure you dont get stuck with something you can neither sell nor rent ?