I will attempt to negotiate a bit with him and I think he'll play some ball, but at the end of the day I'll write this off as a solid life lesson.

Didn’t go with her lender but it was really convenient to get the ball rolling.

When deciding on your shot, a handy trick as a novice is to line up as if you are going to hit your target ball directly. 

My costs tend to be much lower than most given our volumes but it at least will give you a barometer.  5k on plumbing sheet rock and 15k as worst case on mold remediation as a sight unseen ball park and you are under 20k worst case.   

At that point, I will get the ball rolling and will hire an attorney to handle it.

It'd be a different ball game if you put a down payment of 5% and rents went down by $300. 

We are in the process of analyzing properties and are eager to get the ball rolling.

Throw the ball in his court 

Now if you go over 4 units its a different ball game. 

For what it's worth, these tenants have been super on-the-ball up to now about everything and I did a deep due diligence check and got nothing but rave character reviews and financial history.