If he told you 26 days I would set your mind on 40 (~1.5x) and then if he is done early you will be happy instead of miserable. 

And it failed, miserably, in every instance it's been attempted.

She wouldn't really leave me but home life would be miserable for a while and frankly, she earned it.

As long as you end up doing everything legal and legit you'll be fine, but I have had really bad and vindictive inspectors make life miserable for no reason....

Realtors will make your life miserable, Just find off market, I have done 100s and 100s never using a realtor or ON market, or better idea, just buy one from a wholesaler.

Complete BS to steal peoples money.Yes a few people can claim they buy houses with money down as anyone can say that, but reality is they probably do that less than .1% of properties they look at.Save money (if you cannot save money you will fail miserably in real estate), and buy a property with less leverage in a good area and start from there.

Not that super educated people can't sell houses they can.. but there is some salesmen ship involved with this and most do not have the personality for it and fail miserably at trying to sell their own property.

A few facts:-property is listed at retail but I believe seller will contribute to closing costs and accept at least 5% off market price (only way I'd do the deal)-current rent is below market and will need to be increased 15-20%-tenants are making showings "as miserable as possible" so I'm thinking they know what's coming their way-currently month-to-monthThe pics of the property don't show any obvious signs of damage or abuse but I'm not sure I'm willing to risk this happening once I become owner. 

@Sofia Sharkey no one said it can't be done, but if you take the number of people who have success OOS, without going there, versus the ones that fail miserably it will be 1 in 100.

I was just trying to be funny and as usual I failed miserably.