I love to find and analyze deals and my wife is an expert designer/stager. 

Typical upfront fees would consist of Appraisal or BPO fee (3rd party charge) and maybe a document  deposit, after final approval is issued, to ensure that in the event of a last minute cancellation by borrower, legal fees are paid. 

Just a comment on CMBS:Unless you're going with a conduit who has a capped cost program, a CMBS deal can run up some pretty hefty due diligence costs - $30k-50k deposit due with a signed term sheet (majority is anticipated legal fees).

The industry is so ripe for discussion with all of its: negative stigma, tenants/toilets/trash, fee-drivenness, landlord friendly, investor driven, technologically evolving and legislatively active...environment.There's the historic landlord and agent PM legal agency relationship with a traditional scope of service, duties/responsibilities between LL&T, evolving retail/consumer trends/expectations, etc.

There are semy legal ways to eliminate every possible applicant.

When regular contributions are entirely distributed, conversion and retirement plan rollover assets(excluding designated Roth 401k rollover assets) are considered distributed next.

I am glad they are leaving, but just don't know what I can legally do with their security deposit.

really fear mongering here.Marijuana is moving towards decriminalization and legalization.

Calling someone else greedy while you are trying to work a system specifically designed to not allow it is what I was talking about. 

not really, but it's certainly not designed in your favor.