You also cannot buy a house with cash. We had to launder my father's life savings in a bank for six months before we could use it to buy his house, because the

You also cannot buy a house with cash. We had to launder my father's life savings in a bank for six months before we could use it to buy his house, because the seller still had a mortgage on the property when he listed the property. (Why my father's life savings was under his bed is a completely different story.)