I recently completed a 2-year leadership development program with a Fortune 500 company and accepted a full time offer in Clearwater FL.

For one, if she was going to buy it herself she would/should have entered the listing and immediately marked it as accepted offer or something --- assuming the sellers accepted her offer and didn't want to entertain others. 

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With you being in a tenant friendly state you have the lower hand, the only way we can protect ourselves is to screen.  99% of the time when someone writes a post would you accept I already say no before reading but read anyway. 

I thought a solution would be to get a POA before getting into another deal, but I am told that the POA won't be accepted unless it has a specific property address that we are purchasing. 

Unfortunately the home appraised for $15k less than the owner wanted, we wouldn’t over pay, he wouldn’t accept the appraised value so we had to move.

For example when a tenant is behind in rent and I don't think it's not going to work out, I give them 2-3 options that I am willing to accept and have them pick one.  

Its a very competitive market up there and I have been striking out, actually I'm 0 for 3 on over-asking price offers that aren't accepted. 2 of my offers even has escalation clauses, but it didn't help.

If you disclosed that financing was FHA on your purchase agreement, then the seller probably shouldn’t have accepted it.  

Only applications completed in full should be accepted.