We had bought flights to fly back there and work on it, and have a hot tub coming and a game barn ordered and have renters already signed up blah blah blah.

I have been checking out a few websites like it and they just want me to sign up for everything, ie they seem desperate for email addresses. 

As it stands now, a sign in the yard and an ad on Zillow yields me plenty of prospects.

We are Including a clause that explains that though signed now (on/or before 12/1/17), lease only goes into effect closing. 👀.

Until your text counter/counter offers are in writing and signed by both parties they are just verbal negotiations.

If you got a different answer, you agreed to different terms and signed a different contract than most of us are accustomed to seeing.

Is there a lease signed?

D- Magazine with an article suggesting that the top end of the MF high end apartment market is in really bad shape from a pricing perspective.I think this is an early sign that we are seeing the end of the boom in Dallas. 

I don't care if they put up the for rent sign and run an ad on craigslist BEFORE it closes. 

They are currently on month to month leases, but my intention is to have them sign new leases (6 - 12 months).