[gopher_space]

> Have you really started a deal that took two years to close? Did the property just sit there for two years going unused until it closed? How did you know the seller wasn't going to bolt halfway through?

You've just described handling e.g. a dry cleaners or dealing with a single elderly owner.

[legitster]

Sure, you might take years pursing the deal, but what we are talking about is closing on the financing.

When you finally shake hands with the elderly owner of the dry cleaners to buy their property, we're talking about another two years after that before they get their money.