A good Realtor can help you strategize to get the best price you can based on the condition of the property.

They are gaining leverage over you and coercing you to make an emotional decision rather than a strategic one.

A good friend waited two years to get their deposit back due to strategic moves by a military landlord to avoid/delay repayment of deposit on a poorly cash flowing rental they owned (I believe they wanted the deposit to handle repairs they couldn't afford or want to pay for that were not the tenants responsibility).BP Service members, is it ethical to delay handling tenant disputes due to a deployment?

But this does not help with taxes.https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-se...The other side of the coin is that if your parents go into an old person home some people strategically dispose of all their assets so they become a warden of the State.

There are a lot of folks that know a little bit about a lot of things and if you listen to these folks, you can formulate some strategies and ideas from them.Grow - Lately I've been listening to the Jocko Podcast. 

That said, I would recommend being strategic about your target locations.

Ideally, this would be the same person/professional that would be responsible for formulating and presenting a recommendation on your request to the Zoning Board. 

We should meet up and strategize!  

You may want to think about that in relation to formulating a down payment if you were to go that route.Your strike price is $10,000 less than what the seller paid.

We'll re-strategize along the way.If we can get a Audit performed on the Seller's Attorney's Escrow, we are pretty sure his practice will be shutdown.We already know he's incompetent due to a case he lost last year..... which is quite coincidental considering he was sued about a week or so after Kevin got into Contract.