The paper said I had to make 12 payments.

Mostly in the South (which includes Florida and Texas), where prices soared during the pandemic and inventory levels have already recovered to well above pre-pandemic levels.III: Existing Home SalesMost forecasters (including me) expected more of a rebound in existing home sales in 2024.

This bag of paper is leaving me a funding gap on my buy side (1031 exchange)

There are a few pockets where the numbers look great on paper but are massive money pits in real life.

You may need help with the listing before throwing in the towel.

I have already seen the new forms/addendums that will be used here in Arizona, the common one for this will be the Seller Compensation Addendum.The one thing that might happen in your discount buyer agent scenario is you might get a buyers agent who agrees to a lower commission and then the listing agent is offering a co-broke that is higher than he agreed to, well now that buyers agent will only be able to get paid the lower amount he agreed to and the listing agent will keep the remainder, so listing agents could end up getting paid more.As far as your question on what to pay an agent, I view it similarly to hiring an attorney, there are discount attorney's and they might be okay for some people in some circumstances, or if you know the proper procedures and deadlines then maybe you do it on your own without an attorney.

If you have a well-documented paper trail of problems, it would be hard to contest a non-renewal.

Just changes in the paper work.I predicted a likely outcome from the changes in this Axios article.

Sure you can get relatively cheap properties in Toledo and Cleveland, but at today's interest rates they'll be difficult to cash flow despite what your analysis shows on paper.

Appraisals were mailed to us (3 copies) in paper form with actual photos pasted onto the appraisal.