I would accept a smaller fee paid upfront rather than the promise of a large fee at closing, especially with a buyer I have not worked with before.

As promised, here is a direct link to the listing for the house https://www.redfin.com/WA/Ocean-Shores/441-N-Spinnaker-St-98569/home/14766640

Well, after 24 hours of deciding, she literally cryingly accepted my offer of 37k cash and she made me promised that I would take good care of her dad's condo.

The problem becomes when they keep promising all the answers in the NEXT session, if only you pay to come back.

I tell our team to avoid the words "guarantee" and "promise" altogether.  

Any Neighborhoods that you thought had promise and maybe just needed time?

From what I have seen it doesn't look very promising that any of this will change.  

Following these types of questions in an honest fashion will lead you to the root of your problems so that you can solve them, but one thing I can promise you for sure is that it is not the market's fault, and therefore trying to blame the market and move to another won't solve a thing ... in fact, it is likely to create more and other problems IMO.

If anything, I would say the BP community is pretty good at speaking out against unrealistic expectations.If I had to pick a specific party responsible for floating the idea that you can get rich quick by doing a few easy flips, I'd point the finger at HGTV and the 'gurus' out there.But mostly, I believe there is always a segment of the population who will latch on to any fairy tale that promises huge rewards for minimal effort.  

I don't know what to expect any more than the next guy but I can promise it won't affect things to the point that we as humans and investors can't deal with it.