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Use a wire transfer. It's faster than mailing a cheque and only costs like $20.

Twenty dollars for a transfer? I think my bank is expensive because I pay transfers 0.25 euro...

In my neck of the woods wires when buying property are so uncommon my lawyer told me I was the second one ever in her twenty-year practice to do so.

That's funny, I made 5 wires into escrow during my purchase

An old coworker of mine once sold some property to a guy who paid in cash. I would be terribly paranoid the entire day.