Either have an office you can justify (which also means you spend enough time doing work from there).

You retain control of the escrow amount or have a third party hold it with the express agreement that as you spend money you will be reimbursed till fund is drained and will not be permanently funded.

I'm estimating to spend about 6 grand on repairs.

Like @Scott Costello said, it's cleaner and I would rather spend $300 extra to avoid problems with the seller.

But anyway...Regarding being lazy, if preferring to spend time with my family and raising my kids instead of spending time working makes me lazy, then yes, I'm the laziest guy on the planet.Sure, I could do things like spend 26 hours in a car to look at two properties...but I'm lazy and would probably just spend $100 to have someone do it for me while I spent 26 hours having fun instead.

If you extend yourself too far, you risk losing your home.

I am using an addendum which restricts my loss to my EMD in the event of non performance.Making 1 offer at a time with a short review/ratification period allows me to make several offers in a short period of time, without running the risk of spending a lot of money on EMDs and inspections.

If these are not in place and documented then you will spend a lot of time and $.

There are some fairly complex reasons for this, but in short, if space rents are too high, it drives the price of homes way down OR extends the payments out too far...

I have a cheap house i want to sale to an individual AS-IS, but do not want to spend the money to have an attorney draw up a contract and do a closing.