Essentially you sign something saying no one will occupy the home until you get a real CO.

@Michael Baum I suppose in theory the only way we could really lose is if for whatever reason the government recommends non-essential travel be limited.

Once paperwork has been filed, the bank is a party to the transaction.

Closing will happen when the bank has it's paperwork finished.

(still alive and well :) However the paperwork for the Claim for reassessment exclusion for transfer from parent to child was never submitted.

Luckily real estate has been deemed as essential services to Home Depot and contractors are still working!

If none, you can go without, but essentially it is insurance... 

Airbnb, VRBO, etc, doesn't matter what you use for listings, in the end you are essentially running a micro-hotel and like most businesses you need to optimize systems and processes, make sure your customers (all your customers) are having a 5-star experience and keeping your liabilities limited the best you can. 

You have to prepare your financial paperwork to get a prequalification to know how much you can afford.

You can wrap a seller finance deal with another seller finance sale, essentially being the bank.