These under-the-radar provisions have never been publicly vetted and will have unintended and adverse impacts on you and millions of other Americans who wish to save for a secure retirement through Main Street investments.  

They went ahead with it (we split the cost with the previous tenants' security deposit) but found out recently that while painting in most of the house had been done, the closets had not been touched.

A "good" tenant can be worth their weight in gold! 

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If all is clean, offer the lease and secure with a deposit.

So I would make sure you keep your eyes open for pitfalls when absorbing other peoples teachings/wisdom, even mine, or especially mine :)  Go do your own homework, find other opinions and weight their ideas by their merit.

What if I couldn't secure the full amount to purchase a property and instead could only come up with 20-40 percent; Could I get a traditional loan with a promissory note along with my W2 and credit info? 

Unfortunately, the seller cancelled the contract because they were unable to secure other housing accommodations.

They would have very little security.

We've agreed on $1850 per month and 1850$ security deposit....plan on signing a lease soon... for Feb 1 move in.