Or you buy try to buy the equivalent house distressed and do the work to get it to median.This is certainly a delayed gratification strategy.

Your 20s are for taking career risks, delaying gratification, and thinking long term.

Due to this, you would also submit reasons justifying the offer, such as repair lists, crime rate, sexual offender lists, police reports, anything that can cause the lender to accept your offer.

I again laugh and tell him to go perform impossible sexual acts upon himself.

Very few agents do both well and frankly a lot of sellers make the mistake of hiring based upon looks, friendship, sexual orientation, or some false sense of pleasantries exchanged during a meeting or call.A listing agent is a friggin Gorilla.

This is at odds with our instant gratification society.

I have concluded that the negative college theme is a result of how much we've become focused on "instant gratification". 

Hard work, lots of stress, and not instant gratification-- hard sell to those who aren't motivated!

They want instant gratification and instant riches.

It's a lesson about delayed gratification that I try to teach my son all the time.