If your in-laws want to win, see if they can get far enough with their lender to get a commitment instead of a pre-approval and confirm how quickly they can close.

@John Kilhafner As long as when you got the mortgage, you had every intention on living in the house for the 2 years, you're not committing mortgage fraud, so that's a good thing.There are two schools of thought on what happens if something changes. 

You can also get better rates with the cleaners when you make a long term commitment and we provide all the cleaning supplies. 

its unfortunate in these states that you blindly trust attorneys without reading your title commitment yourself.. 

But there's a lot of reasons people rent: bad credit, not enough savings, fear of commitment, fear of owning a home, unstable job, relationship instability...etc.There will always be people who need to rent.

best advice is become committed,  we all start out interested.  

Although you have a 1-year lease in place, the lender is committing to you for 15-30 years.

Once you accept payment for something you've committed to delivering a product.

I know bigger brokerages have a lot of resources/programs for new agents but feel like they'd rather take on someone with more time/commitment to bring in a higher volume of sales.

I just wish the tables could be turned and these tenants that are commiting all kinds of crimes beyond just overstaying would finally be facing charges like fraud, extortion, terroristic threats, assault, etc...you know, the kinds of things that landlords get threatened with when they want to throw the book at one, but somehow tenants seem to be immune from.