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DEPARTMENT FOR AGING AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES AUXILIARY GRANT PROGRAM NON-SSI RESOURCE ELIGIBILITY 11/18 CHAPTER E PAGE 24 • Any other evidence of reasonable efforts to sell property. 10.10. Good Cause Good cause exists when circumstances beyond an individual's control prevent his/her taking the required actions to accomplish reasonable efforts to sell. 10.10.1. Significance of Good Cause • Without good cause, failure to meet the criteria outlined above, as applicable, means that the individual is not making reasonable efforts to sell the property. Therefore, his/her countable resources include the value of the excess property. • With good cause, failure to meet the criteria above means that the exclusion continues. 10.10.2. Examples of Good Cause • No Offer to Buy The individual makes good faith efforts to sell excess non-liquid resources (or is prevented from doing so by circumstances beyond his/her control) but receives no offer to buy them. • Reliance on an Offer That Does Not Result in a Sale A legitimate or apparently legitimate offer to buy the property halts further efforts to sell it for a prolonged period of time, and the prospective buyer subsequently cannot or will not complete the purchase. • Escrow Begins But Closing Does Not Take Place within Disposal Period The individual accepts an offer to buy real property, and escrow begins, which precludes acceptance of another offer. Closing (at which full or partial payment and transfer of title are exchanged) does not take place. • Incapacitating Illness or Injury The individual becomes homebound or hospitalized for a prolonged period, due to illness or injury, and cannot take the steps necessary to sell the resource or to arrange for someone to sell it on his/her behalf.