After paying the standard 3% earnest money into Escrow the buyer then cancelled the contract and demanded the deposit back.

The first fixer-upper or two will be a bit of a learning curve for all parties, your contractor will begin to get a better sense of the type of rehab you do and soon you'll be able to more or less standardize them over time which helps you get accurate estimates.

My standard lender won’t go above jumbo for this, but our home will appraise for much more and I would love the cash to continue investing.Thank you!

It's becoming the standard in commercial installations.

Not because they were way out of their lane and trying to buy a house they truly couldnt afford but because banks have raised the bar really high for buying standards now.

Just to give you a taste we discovered that our last Prez stole $24k from the reserve to gamble.

I think the assessed tax value never took into account that the property had a large lot and was simply valued like other homes with standard .2 acre lots.

The gold standard for loans in the $1M-3M range (in my opinion) is the Freddie Mac SBL loan.

Not to say you can't negotiate but you should go along with what is standard as that is what their staff will be used to.  

Hi @Leland Dorchester, Redfin and Zillow just provide estimates based on average interest rates and standard loan terms.