Why are you ready to do another deal now when you don't have liquid assets to do it? 

Other factors include the fact that we can sell now at a higher price and sit on the extra liquid cash if the housing market were to go down in the future.

After years of re-investing every penny, I am liquid.

A lot of sellers have high expectations of what their property is worth, so try to get a sense of the deal's potential.As @Greg Dickerson pointed out, you will need partners with the networth and liquidity to qualify for a loan.

In some contracts, the buyers EMD is meant to serve as a liquidated damages in the event of a seller breach. 

Largest Ever": Fed Will Flood Market With Gargantuan $500 Billion In Liquidity To Avoid Year-End Repo Crisis"And just in case that's not enough, the NY Fed's markets desk also added that it "intends to adjust the timing and amounts of repo operations as needed to mitigate the risk of money market pressures that could adversely affect policy implementation, consistent with the directive from the FOMC."

Trust me I know, I make several hundred thousand dollars per year liquidating their failures.

$600 for removing garbage really depends on how much needed removal- did they need to make a trip to the dump (fee involved) did they need to deal with dangerous liquids, feces, etc? 

(Savings) increase liquid savings.

And, I don’t know mortgages that well but assuming the payments aren’t reducing each month then all you’re doing is building equity quicker but reducing liquidity, which isn’t great.Cash is king!