That's the most common choice on a contract.

It happened to a friend of mine, he regretted that he did not put in more EM that he had a choice to do so.

And with an option the option holder always has the choice to let it expire unexercised.

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Most new investor types spend way too much time trying to make chicken salad out of a single chicken-scratch property with an unreal principal rather than creating a deal flow to have many choices from.

Last October I closed on a duplex in the popular part of downtown.

The borrower does not usually have much choice in the matter, the Lender only gives the money to the borrower (on behalf of the borrower, really) provided they get an appropriate deed of trust or mortgage on real property sufficient to cover the money they are lending.

Maybe a shift of population to cities where you have many more choices and can go to a store instead of being limited to the Avon lady.

There is one and only one choice - the national flood insurance program.

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