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Question: After months of home shopping, we found the perfect property. We were thrilled. The buyer’s agent we hired went to work drafting our purchase-offer proposal.

Then things took a turn for the worse. My father-in-law got involved. He lives out of state, but the property is in the San Francisco Bay Area.