If the applicant keeps going back and forth instead of making a decision, they may very well be dragging the whole thing out while shopping for other deals.

Perhaps finding treasures at resale shops and refinishing them and then offering to use them to stage properties (for a price).

I work about an hour from home so trying to take on projects or shop markets much outside of my immediate area would be too demanding of my time!

(Fair disclaimer, we are a distributor for CWP, Wood Harbor, Wellborn, and Wolf cabinets)The advantage to a big, established player (like any of the above) come to things like -* Quality of finish (Paint in a controlled shop is way different than paint at some guy's uncontrolled shop)* Warranty* Quality control of doors and boxes* Quality of construction* Service and Logistics* Quality of hardwareWhen you're talking about local manufacturers, they're oftentimes not building in an environmentally controlled environment.

I guess it is also unethical to buy a wedding ring from a pawn shop, because whoever pawned it needed money to buy groceries?

@Allison Leung Really awesome idea, great for one stop shopping! 

On the one hand you could replace the appliances that are a little old yet still function so that if it breaks while you have a tenant, you won't be rushed to buy one and miss out on the opportunity to shop around for the best deal. 

You can also do all your shopping for materials there online, and go to the customer service desk and all your stuff is ready for you to just check out.

Also I found Farmers Insurance to have the best rates when I shopped around last year.

Provided the option is non-transferrable (which would be how you set it up), you could re-let the property and let the clock run out on the option.If you wanted to find a new tenant-buyer for the property, you could cancel the option and refund the remainder of the option fee (remember a component of the option fee is a time value which diminishes the closer you get to the exercise date).