Honestly, I have posted something similar elsewhere before but it's a lot to handle and to ask strangers to take the time to facilitate answers. furthermore, I have just been too embarrassed to ask the hard questions publicly and receive the hard answers publicly!

They also completely embarrassed me by allowing me to have a tenant applicant do a credit check, but then refusing to release the details to me because I had my own credit profile locked.

It’s a little embarrassing in retrospect but it also makes me proud that we didn’t wait until we knew “everything” and we took action.

They just lost an embarrassing 20 year court case in 1996. 

The house has been on the market for 6 weeks.I would start at $55K, you can always raise your offer.If you're not embarrassed with you're offer, then the offer is too high.Raymond

Wow that's embarrassing. 

So I am going to take the $1,400 I have in my wallet and go shopping at Wal Mart and buy $1,300 worth of things I use to be embarrassed to buy for my wife when I was married and then have the sales money sent to my bank about 3 days before I head to my happy place. 

I DO NOT want to be an investor that cuts corners or excercises ANY illegitimate/shady business practices, no matter how common it may seem among other investors and my hope/effort to cause the seller to take the risk of triggering that clause is embarrassingly shameful of me and I appreciate you pointing out the simple fact that if she sells to me, "she has to pay off her mortgage and there's no getting around that."

The reason why he keeps on answering the phone and feeding you two-faced BS is that he's trying to stave off your taking action as long as possible, hoping you'll get disgusted enough to just walk away, that $3,500 is just an embarrassing business loss for you and you'll let it go without going after him in small claims court.

They say that they would feel embarrassed to send out a Notice to Quit the very first day rent is late.