Ken McElroy breaks down the due diligence timeline in his book "The ABCs of Real Estate Investing."

They asked my husband to reconsider and argued as to how both my contractor and inspector didn't know what they are doing. 

Some would argue here in the DC metro area that 30 miles would be an unreasonable commuting distance, but I've yet to find an underwriter that would accept an FHA loan for a primary residence in Reston, VA and subsequently another primary residence a year later in Waldorf, MD (a distance of only 49 miles that could take as long as 4 hours at either rush hour); in short, it doesn't happen. 

I got them to drop it because we had paperwork that showed our move out date and argued that we told them two days before move out, and it should not have taken 19 days to put a new lock in.

A letter must be sent to the tenant stating the Owner's intent to nullify the agreement due to the tenant's breach of contract (not making payments on time)...and hope that the tenants don't have access to even a bad lawyer who would argue "owners said it was OK...

Arguing the probability of a city of 212k can immediately replace a city of 1 million + (Austin is about 1mil, Bay Area is 7) as a leader in any industry is certainly not the point of this post.

I would argue that "risk tolerance" isn't much of a factor because you don't have to cash out all of the equity.

One would argue that you would be getting paid for all the work you did that they did not, but that is a personal choice. 

I'd argue that that particular real estate agent probably calls Brandon first, before any of his/her other clients to give him a chance at the hot lead before telling anyone else about it. 

I'll probably add something into the special terms on my lease mentioning that just so there's no arguing about it.