My view is that I can get a higher return by parking that cash in real estate as opposed to having some fund manager get me marginal returns on my savings.Appreciate any thoughts or comments.

He was the brunt of jokes about bad real estate courses at all most all every real estate investing seminars back in the pre ZOOM days.

Can someone explain the contract process I know it is private property vs real property so that will affect how you go about it.

The moral of the story is, with real estate, there are many things that can happen completely unexpectedly.

I'm Kris from Toronto, passionate about real estate investing in Multifamily. 

I'm Sam from the DMV (DC, MD, VA) area, passionate about real estate investing for the past 12 years.

For the bulk of my real estate service career I've sold Oregon Coast property and STR vacation rentals with ocean views and occasionally oceanfront locations. 

@Joel MoraThis is the area of real estate where most of it lies, which is in the gray area (unlike every guru telling you it’s black and white).

Explain it is more expensive than you thought to own the house (real estate tax reassessment, etc) and you want to escrow for making future improvements.

I get it everybody has to make a buck , but I didnt hire the buyers agent , what ever they want to charge THEIR customer is fine with me , but I wasnt paying it .  2.5% sounds like a low number until you put it into real numbers on a $800k sale and you see it as  $20,000 .