If you do not list the property you stand to save a few dollars, but you're stuck working on the tenants' timeline (meaning there's not much incentive for them to move forward at a normal pace since they already live there).

This is sometimes hard to understand because we all tend to hang out with mavericks like ourselves, and think its normal to buy houses we never see for cash, but in the world outside, real Investors like you are few and far between.

Things are definitely not normal right now.

I think you mentioned that you only get paid for results.. correct.. well that is good.What happens when you rope all these newbies into large credit lines with sucker starter rates they max out the credit cards like so many americans do then it jumps to the normal 21% and they get into credit card debt hell how do you help them with that. 

But my offer was a cash offer with ZERO contingencies and a larger than normal earnest-money check.

In Rhode Island, my understanding is that it's only "super" to the extent of 6 months' worth of condominium association fees; after that it has normal "non-super" priority ("first in time, first in line").

Is that normal?

They just buy in the normal fashion.

Especially with the sellers agent in their ear telling them to pass on the offer.Is it normal to submit an offer for 100k under asking price?

They'll normally offer full term rents, or close to it, 9 to 12 months up front. and when I've asked them to still fill-out an application for their credit/work history, they want to know why, "If I'm paying all cash do I need to do this??"