Hey folks, for all the good this community does I think we should also highlight bad and morally questionable practices that would harm this business.

My 2 cents:- Check your local laws, they have a habit of changing often in Seattle.

They may also suspect that it will not redeem.There is no harm in asking and making an offer.

🏠 FHA loans require an appraisal to be conducted by an FHA-approved appraiser, which includes an inspection of the property to ensure it meets certain standards for safety and habitability.🔎 The required inspection can lead to a higher possibility of a remedy (seller fixing items) being needed during the appraisal.🤝 Some realtors have a bias against FHA loans because of the required inspection and the possibility of a remedy being needed, which can affect sellers' perceptions of FHA loans.

If those options are not available to you, I'd make sure I set myself up where I wanted to be for a few years, then ask for a short sale as it will harm your credit.  

Even full time agents are in appointments and meetings and can't respond every second so if your clients and other agents can't tell you have another job no harm, no foul.

That has a bad habit of not being there when you need it...and history has told us that.  

This common scheme encourages the original Seller to sell to the second buyer by virtue of creating a false sense of what the current market will bear.It isn't so much a matter of whether the other potential buyers will be harmed, but the fact that both Bidders have engaged in deceptive practices towards the Seller.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.