Children will benefit more from a parent teaching them right vs. wrong than they will from a few extra dollars.

If not, give them a little extra time (60 days max) to find something new and then get a renter that will pay you what it's worth.

If they put the house back on the market and it sells for the same or more, they cant really claim the Earnest money except maybe the carrying cost for the extra time.

I'd prefer to buy a duplex so that I can rent out one unit and rent a room in the unit I'd be living in, or buy a 3 bed 2 bath house and rent the extra rooms.

What you are selling is "time saved" and the extra up front capital that isnt needed. 

Hot economy, jobs, all types of loan forbearance, stimulus checks, child tax care credits, raging stock market, rock bottom interest rates, quantitative easing, extra unemployment benefits, home value increases, highest savings rates in history, the list goes on. 

I don't know about him but i would prefer to take $11k now and work with some new client on some new deal rather than $0k and start all over "because I deserved double that". 

I’ve discussed this idea w my neurooncologists, ACS local branch and others and hospital has given me a list of possible cleaners to use since we require extra cleanliness and all say great idea but wanting feedback from you all who have STRs.

The extra money may not be worth the extra work.

While the market has been extra hot,  I think that's a bit of a nationwide issue and not just this market.Note that this needs to be very well managed with rate optimization dialed in tight.