Ask yourself, if I lose one septic, how many homes are affected?  

We are fairly new to REI and are trying to learn more about the industry and the best ways of doing things without losing money.  

Insurance is always a losing proposition from a financial standpoint.  

Have you ever been whith a girl for long that you just didnt know the consequence of losing that diamond.

Raising the existing home would need to be done before any construction on the new home started and the existing home would lose its basement and all mechanicals would have to be moved upstairs.

But it's definitely riskier and if we have a downturn like the last one you could lose a lot.  

It might make sense and it might be easy to produce a POF letter but hey- if this guy is a player and is just kicking the tires and looking - and you can verify that he is a player- ask for your POF when he makes the offer and dont piss him off!

You could come in and find a flipper mentor or see what flippers want so you could wholesale it to them or just meet the major players in the area. 

I just don't want to lose it now that I got a "Yes" in a state I'm not familiar with.  

Eventually those will either go back to the bank or they will find out that losing 5 to 10k at once is the reality (better to take a shot in the head then one in the stomach).