Do I just need to be more assertive?

My response is " I assert you could use quick analysis as a filter because if someone is asking ridiculous price for a property, you should not waste your time digging so deep just to find out that you will pay 50% or even less of the asking price".For example, if 10 unit buildings in your farm area are selling for $500,000 and you see a 10 unit building (same type of property) listed for $900,000, you shouldn't spend hours analyzing it all the way unless it makes sense to look into it by using a quick filter. 

Estoppel may arise when one person gives a warning to another based on some clearly asserted facts or legal principle, and the other does not respond within "a reasonable period of time".

The tenant could find themselves on the losing end of a lawsuit and the landlord might assert they lost the house because of the tenant's failure to pay.

Within said law, consist of preconditions for a tenant to assert a rent escrow action. 1 precondition is that a tenant not have "more than 2 judgements if they have been living in a property for less than 6 months or more than 4 judgements in the previous 12 months".....the judge in the above action dismissed based on having "3 judgements in the last 12 months"...which is not the law and she juat made up.

I know the hunger you feel, as you want to take control of your financial future, and I support that assertion.  

If there is to be another deep recession, as some people have been asserting again and again, a better chance might be ahead, but who knows?

(as I sit here and giggle over what CAN be done, that normal people assert, can't be done) ;-)

I still stand by my assertion that you have no legal prohibition from offering someone money.

The deed restriction in the FNMA addendum is very specific, and conflicts with your assertion.