Use your imagination.  

Found several others affected by this individual.I can imagine.

However this would obviously require substantial work and we probably wouldn't have the funds for years.Since I think we'd be losing money to rent it out (if we were to move) at our current rate with a conventional loan, I'm imagining maybe some kind of seller finance situation... which gets back to my question, what kind of deal could we present to our landlord that they might find appealing and gets us the chance to at least break even on rent?

As far as waiting until you graduate: either option would work but I would imagine your biggest obstacle at the moment would be that you do not have a set record of wages from an employer.

Well one thing that is interesting in regards to Earnest Money is that you take a place like Ohio, I'd imagine it's the same in Oregon but in Ohio the Division of Real Estate regulates the activities of real estate brokerages and their trust accounts but the Division of Insurance is who regulates title companies.

If you take a HELOC at home, I'd imagine you'd be able to cover that cost as well.

I can't imagine someone with this history so fiscally irresponsible!

If somebody out there has a bunch of sub to deals, this could create big problems for them I imagine. 

I've offered easy HDMI hookups for BYOC (bring your own console), but not actually included mine as I've heard stuff gets more mistreated, stolen, etc.I can't quite imagine offering newer games for this purpose. 

I have not received any feedback regarding that, but I like to imagine it does provide a new level of coziness upon their stay.