Typically when I buy a house I'll ask the seller to pay closing costs and prepaids instead of the other broker offering a commission.

Your lease should still be signed it will just all be prepaid per say.

If you did move forward, I would take a really high deposit instead of prepaid rent.

I have not dealt with a real estate yet but my child custody lawyer want a retainer fee (prepaid) with hourly rate of $250 taken from the retainer fee. 

I would agree that they "know" the law when it comes to filing a lien, but that's only because they have pre-paid legal.

I don't know how feasible (and legal) this is, but I'm exploring options and thought this up:For a deferred down payment do a leaseback prepaid to cover closing costs + down payment.

A seperate option is cash paid.....period without any connection to the sale price and you can always pay costs except pre-paids....

A disclosure of this is required for residential, but not commercial, you can still ask.Don't forget to compare loan costs and the points as pre-paid interest.

For the future, you might want to have your contract include something like $100 additional per day to be pre-paid for any extensions of closing date to cover seller's expenses for additional holding period.

Charging points can get you trouble with usury laws as it is nothing more than pre-paid interest and is factoredto compute the APR.