I would buy it purely for the value in writing a compelling short story - it has everything: confederate geniuses, EMF cancer clusters, meth labs and perhaps a local police force that likes to shoot first. 

At the move-out date, he told me his gardener didn't have time to come, which looked like a pure excuse to me.

Tell her to give her 30 day notice if she wants to move :)  If you really want to continue the conversation, you might tell her that asbestos is everywhere, including to some extent in the water she drinks depending on the water source.

To me long term tenants are pure gold in REI.

In Tulsa, purely from an agent's perspective.

I'll drink to that!!

If it were purely a rental you could more easily look at what cash flows better but if you're going to live there for a few years, you should enjoy living there. 

And for anyone willing to work hard in the CRE loan business here are some Marketing Ideas/Sources for Commercial Mortgages Pure networking is the absolute best method of marketing these commercial mortgages.

I did not mean to infer they are and used their cases purely as education what can happen if someone is found to be brokering without a license. 

. :-)But I understand what you're getting at.From a purely technical standpoint, the buyer isn't paying the commission, the seller is.No one is saying that the listing agent is "free," but it's the seller's burden to bear it in most transactions regardless of how much they sell their house above or below list price.Yes, pure semantics, the buyer cut a check for the house.