[quote=spdrun]Iff — the USD has actually gone up WRT most currencies in the last 6-12 months, despite Zimbabwe Ben-Shalom’s worst efforts to damage it. Buying a home outright is still risky — if it drops in price, you’ve lost money that could otherwise have been spent making other money.
As far as a standard offer vs cash, so the broker would like you to believe.[/quote]
Seriously, if someone can walk in and buy 3 $1million house (1 each for their two college kids) and 1 as a vacation house, I’m seriously not discounting what the selling agent says…If this was a matter of B.S., I would have received a counter offer with a proposal…Absolutely no counter offer…I can only think of when this happens…Multiple offers, favorable terms, at or above asking…..