Which is why they agreed to my proposed compromise which was a quick 2 year full am payoff. 

So it ends up being a compromise to start, but then you can weigh out the options after the data comes in.It can certainly help other folks get on board with a change, but I even use the "set it up as an experiment" trick to trick my own mind into trying something new when it doesn't want to.

The OTA's want you to believe this is easy, far from it if you want to be really good at it, but being good doesn't mean you have to compromise.  

A lot of the homes that are completely gone are still barren with some where the land is put up for sale.For homes that were damaged, they ended up demolishing it rather than repairing due to structural integrity being compromised. 

I know we have plenty of that even in my own family.I think it's a short leap from that to, "The only reason I don't succeed financially is that I'm not willing to compromise my ethics and personal morality to the point that other people do.

They celebrate paying off their outsized mortgage because for them it's a great life-changing accomplishment.They mourn when they have to leave the house that they spent so much of their lives in, like their cheap ticky-tacky tract-built place is an ancestral estate handed down from time immemorial and their lives are bound up with the soil it rests on.They fill their houses with just ungodly amounts of their crap, trying to own it more fully.They hire people to do the simplest jobs in their house because they're worried to death about structurally compromising the joint: "Oh no, if I replace this faucet and the faucet leaks there will be massive damage and a contractor will have to give me a quote and I'll have to file a claim with my insurance, and, and, and..."

Is BiggerPockets server being compromised? 

This is a less common practice in SoCal, but with a buyer who is a hassle, it's exercised.Further, you have the buyers contacted, and they negotiate a deadline, with mutual  compromise.  

The tenant absolutely loved it and I was very glad to have found this compromise. 

Should I:1 - Deny the application2 - Accept it and sign a lease now and receive the deposit/1st month later (maybe I cannot show my place int he meantime though)3 - Compromise: sign a lease now contingent to receiving the checks for deposit/1st month and still show the place to others?