Largest: $625,000-the entire purchase price. ($575,000 asking price).

5 day escrow, last February.

Smallest $5,000.

Zero dollars! Consideration was the promise to purchase! Deal went smoothly although do not recommend it!

The smallest was probably $100.  The largest was $100,000 non refundable and released to seller for a spec home the buyer wanted to customize during the construction process.

Don't think I ever did anything less than $500.  Largest was $6,000 I think. The E.M. amount is actually pretty irrelevant because it is easily refunded, depending on how the contract is written.

largest was one dollar under listing price and smallest was zero

100% of the time it has always been no less than 3% of the purchase price. 

$50k. +
$200. -

We've also had a couple with zero that we should never have allowed. Buyers with no skin in the game have no reason to perform.

It depends on the price offered, and I can;'t say I can accurately remember either.

I have seen good faith in differing amounts

Largest was $75,000. Smallest $500

$100 is the smallest, $15,000 was the largest. (We don't typically hold a big amount of earnest money; I'm more interested in the due diligence money. That's putting money where the buyer's mouth is.)

Smalles $500.00 

A couple of hundred thousand. It was the purchase price.

Largest 25k, smallest 100.00

$1,000 is the smallest.... $80,000 is the largest....

$500 (and the seller accepted!!!) and $100,000 - last August on a luxury sale and we made it non-refundable! They did Close on the property!

$150 down FHA REO special deal. Only $20K for I think around $600K

I definitly heard of buyers putting the whole amount of purchase as EMD a few times in my real estate life.

Smallest was $500, and paid in installements.  It was new construction in a community with a lot of first responders and teachers (my buyer was a teacher) and they were used to working with a lot of people without ready cash because many of them were going through VHDA (Virginia Housing Development Authority) for their loans, getting grant and builder assistance. So, while I was not used to such small amounts, it all worked out and was apparently not unusual.  

Largest?  Probably $50,000 in a multi offer scenario.

I have actually used an IOU for earnest money. Recently the smallest I used (On a VA loan) was $1500 on a starter $275k range home.

Nathan - Not exactly sure the highest, but am pretty sure the lowest was at or around $1,000.

$500 small, 25,000 largest

I think it was $500.

I've SEEN offers where the buyer wanted to put 0 or $1,000 down.  That was the first or second thing countered though.

Nathan - The largest Earnest Money Deposit I have seen is $767,000 for a home priced at $767,000.  It got that buyer the property in a situation with 8 offers and 3 of them offering a higher net to the seller.  The money was confirmed to be in the settlement companies escrow account the day the offer was made.

$10k for me

Largest - $20,000

Smallest - $500

Nathan Gesner The largest was $25,000 and an additional $25,000 to extend the offer. The smallest was probably $500.

Whatever it takes to make the purchase agreement legal; The smallest I believe was $500.

The largest was $1,000,000.  The smallest was $500.

the smallest e.m. deposit was "nada"... there was a promise of a few thousand dollars e.m. in the contract... but by the time we got through all the contingencies, the closing date was upon us, and we didn't have time to collect any e.m.

the largest I was every involved in was @240,000. 

A $10 bill attached to the Agreement of Sale

Nathan Gesner - the largest was 10% of the offer price - the builder did not want to budge.

The smallest and conventional is $1,000 in our area.

The smallest was $400 and it was for a buyer getting a USDA loan. The buyer was credited back for the $400 at closing as USDA is a no-downpayment loan.

I have done many of them for a hundred.

$100 and $10,000

$1 smallest and a 20% of the purchase price as the largest...

Largest probably about 75 or 100 K.  Smallest - 100.00. I know these folks well and they've boughten and sold many homes from me the last 25 years.

With a mortgage $500 , largest $150,000.00

On cash I have seen $900,000 down(100%) 24 hour COE-rejected too low.

$0.00 for smallest (no money is required in Florida).

$100K for the largest.

We don't collect earnest money here on Long Island, and go straight to Contract!

$1 is the smallest.