I am an hvac contractor in Richmond va and depending on your climate you also might consider disgaurding the system all together and installing a heat pump so it is included in the electric bill and is one less thing you have to worry about.

If they will just be investing passively one time and they don't need checkbook control they can get by with very low fees with IRA Services.

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

If you are owner financing some or all of the property then the structure and valuation is different than a traditional sale.Also you won't be able to control all the sales in the neighborhood or what they go for.It is not like you own a subdivision and all the houses you built in it.4.You can do 4 but you waste time.Interest rates can rise and values can fall and you get a worse evaluation then you have now.5.

I would've had about 7-8k into this house if I had bought it and put in new HVAC so my question is would you have: 1. put the new HVAC system in and increase the # of years of the note for a higher price 2. put window units in and charged around 12.5k or 3. not put any money in and just sold it as-is for a cheaper price?

To me the solution is simple: Buy up all the foreclosures and other cheap properties and control the market.

I had a guy who offered every single term and price the bank would agree to and they still took it to foreclosure saying that he didn't do it "in time" although they control the time and extensions.Sorry to hear, but don't give up because of that.

Basically, control the deal.

Condos just have a ton of risk, risk you can do very little to control or mitigate.

They both said I met all the criteria but Fannie's system rejected the app both times.