Also, OP says he'll just walk away if it doesnt work out, wouldnt he lose his downpayment?

Instead of focusing on the poor family losing their home, they are showing the side of the person that is purchasing that home cheap and reselling it or renting it out.

We know that if both our businesses went bust we could find jobs easily and keep up with our standard of living.

I have been in a multiple offer situation the last few months on every property I put an offer on and I have been losing out on everything.

Wouldn't you rather take the profits and pay on average, 30% in taxes then to risk losing 50% of your profits in a downturn?

That said we did lose a lot of money due to being down.

I'd like to know how you can tell, when a tenant signs your lease, that that tenant won't lose their job or they won't suffer a heart attack.

Inspections are cheap compared to what you stand to lose if you miss something.

Can I tell the Section 8 tenant that she could lose her voucher if I call the Section 8 office?

If through a listing broker it will depend on what the listing broker entered on the MLS and MLS rules.In Georgia for instance on FMLS if as a broker you screw up and enter commission wrong,mistake things etc. you can be on the hook for the commission or lose access to the MLS.MLS's are sometimes controlled by REALTOR associations and other times are private entities that are non-profits or for-profit organizations.Also the brokers/agents involved it would matter if they were REALTORS or not.Generally your state's real estate commission does not handle commission disputes.They only care about license laws.The agent can argue procuring cause with the other agent but it should not stop your sale.Simply you would close and get your proceeds and the commission in question would be froze until a solution was given and signed in writing or a court order.There are so many variables to this and it is state specific.Procuring cause is a chain of events leading up to a sale of a property.If the chain is broken generally the broker/agents is not due a commission.The moral of the whole story is the buyers agent needs to learn how to protect themselves in the future.I am not going to court to get my agents commission when I only charge them a 300 flat fee as a broker.No legal advice