Many sellers don't want a potential provision that would negate a sale.

Once everything is signed and agreed to, renegotiating those things can be difficult.

You have to ask yourself if you can handle a scenario where you put your home on the market and it sells the next day. Would you know how to proceed from there?

I think sellers are being unrealistic. The house I'm looking at down the street, the (recent comparable sale) is $1.5 million, and they're asking $1.98 million.

Once you label me, you negate me

We don't know how much of the refinery is down or for how long. But not to negate the human tragedy, it happened at the worst time of the year seasonally. And it happens at a time the market is nervous and looking for reasons to go higher anyway.