To be honest, I took the plunge solely out of experience.

You know Christina, you can try to ask for a deduction but in all honesty when I purchased my house in SD in 2010 I factored in a new roof but 5 years later still no sign of needing one.  

I have to be honest i been all over the place from trying to wholesale with not much marketing due to lack of funds and finding out the hard way  its very difficult to accomplish this if you don't have a lot of cash to  starting out.

To be honest, I was more interested in using a property management company to take care of all the legal documents and rent collection (and evictions if things got ugly).

I look forward to work with professional people in all aspect with motivation, honesty with desire helping others as a helping hand.

The path to financial independence if paved with hard work, education, honesty, frugality, and commitment, not by exposing the secrets of the rich.As noted by others, this is a self-induced apoplexy by book reading.

The honesty and transparency you describe is something most of us have experience at one point or another.

To be honest I was going to let it go if hadn't bled into January's rent as well and chalk it up to a $450 lesson learned.

It may be painful at first, but in all honesty, I think you could have something really workable and usable within a couple hours. 

To be totally honest I have no money to put into a deal.