Gradually building your real estate portfolio without compromising your retirement security.4.

Once you hire them as your Buyer Agent, they now owe you several fiduciary duties, including loyalty (meaning they have to keep your best interests above their own and others whom they don't represent), confidentiality (they can't tell a seller or seller's agent anything about you that would compromise your negotiating position), and disclosure (meaning if they know anything about a seller or a property that could help you, they must tell you). 

If your email is compromised, you could have an obligation to report to all of your prior applicants that their information may be at risk. 

As far as the stove, you had no written agreement from what I can tell, so if she's refusing to compromise with you on that front, you have a new $700 stove.

Eric,my top recommendation that I would stress to you is never compromise on the 1% rule.

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Never compromise, always run credit and background checks.  

Don't give in, don't compromise.....

To me, it's not about being able to do nothing, it's more about working hard every day to be more effective with the limited time we've all got and not having to compromise.    

I told them there was no way in hell I was paying engineering fees to put back what was there, and we settled on a compromise wherein they let me put half walls up just under my construction license/bond.