While they've been a good tenant, there is no excuse for holding you hostage. 

Now excuse me as I need to go home and take over four year old duty.

Despite entering into a contract to buy properties, he made up a series of ridiculous excuses, changed his financing source at the last minute without disclosure, refused to communicate at all simply ghosting the transaction.

If you are not finding success do not look for an excuse look for the right opportunity and keep looking till you find it.

I know the seminar that we are attending has a lot of good information and that is how I'm looking at it, paid education + an excuse to hangout with my wife for a few days.I've been to one REX meeting about 2 years ago.

They would likely make an excuse as to why they can't show you as opposed to flat-out refusing, as technically they can't refuse if they represent you;- The agent may contact the seller and ask if they'll pay a commission;- Your agency agreement with the broker may specify that if the seller isn't willing to pay commission for any reason (FSBO or otherwise), it is the responsibility of the BUYER to pay the agent's commission.

Time isn’t an excuse for me.

It leaves you as the buyer with the excuse that the bank won't lend you the full amount but will lend you up to $15,000.

I just went through this exercise for my own new company and the temptation was there to just say oh it's a REI company and nobody cares about the name or will ever know the name.Imagine yourself in a networking situation - will you be proud to say the same of your company or will you say the name of the company and then offer an excuse as to why it's so boring?

The barriers to adding workforce housing are enormous because of the soaring cost of labor and materials, and combined with the growth in the local economy, you'll have a lot going for you right off the bat.PS don't let that web site project be an excuse for not working toward your goals!