Do this after the appraisal is back and your removing all contingencies. 

. - If you have enough meat on the bone as you're claiming, you could increase your budget to include the downpayment as a "contingency" or "GC" line item.

You want to have contingency clauses in your offer. 

We were not counting on any of these unforseen items, but we did have a contingency amount set aside in the budget for unknown issues.We called in a contractor to get an actual quote on the now known things and turned out it could be resolved within our pre-established budget.Had this amount been over our pre-established budget, it would have put us in a position to renegotiate.Here are my thoughts that was running through my head at the time.Option 1 - Continue with the deal if within budget.Option 2 - Ask Seller to lower price due to unforseen items that came up on the inspection.  

Part of the risk of bidding on these auction sites is that you typically have no financing or inspection contingencies.  

Do you have a financing contingency?  

We found a place 2 blocks from the coffee shop and got it under contract with a 30 day or less, no contingency close.

I am having an extremely difficult time finding any deals on the RMLS (due to cash offer w/ no contingency people running around buying everything) Does anyone know of any good wholesalers, bird dogs or the like that I could get in touch with?

What you DON'T want to do is try and be sneaky, work with Lender A on Prop A and Lender B on Prop B, and then at the last minute after all contingencies have been removed, Lender B gets a ping saying you've suddenly got $400k in new undisclosed debt at the last minute. 

I plan on writing serval contingencies to protect myself to get out of the deal if inspections don't go as hoped but in a competitive market, is there a risk in writing a full price offer to get under contract to learn more?