My HVAC guy deducts literally everythingThoughts?

Obviously if you don’t feel comfortable doing it yourself then don't, but it’s a pretty easy process and there are tens of thousands of reviews of people who have also successfully done it. 

I was given choice of continuing with purchase with discount of 25% of the cost of non disclosure ($11k) or I could walk and seller would pay my damages (less than 2 thousand).  

Common mistakes can cost thousands.

I later heard but never exactly why, that the place was an absolute money pit and the buyer, who was very experienced, regretted buying it big time.It is interesting, but I ALWAYS do at least a bit of research on the prior owners and have found few "hard luck" stories, at least as far as either higher or high priced single fams go, they're by far the same story where the owner makes the financial decision to walk away, mainly due to the insane HELOC's etc they were giving out, like 125% of home's current value back in like 2006, so now they'll owe literally like $750k on a home that IF in great shape would at best fetch $500k, PLUS they trashed or semi-trashed the place, so they'd be really lucky to get $400k as is and often they may be business owners or whatever and have a relationship with a local bank who will then know "the whole story" behind the big hit they take to their credit score and not treat it nearly as harshly as the average Joe, who's practically banned from even entering the bank for years!

There has literally never been an easier time to short sell. 

I was laughed out of the room and was told it could be done for 1% (yes if you have friends and family - but if you are raising $5M you will spend several hundred thousand today if you do not know people).

Thousands of investors nationally and internationally, not from the South, see the growth, economic advancement, and solid fundamentals, and see the opportunity in Multi-Family without considering inventory available in these cities.

Nowhere on their little video do they low ball people on notes plus 30 day money back guarantee..anytime anything is at a costs from 90 bucks to thousands.

Be careful- literally street by street can be very different.