If seller is not sufficiently motivated, cash is irrelevant.

The reason I mention the 'high income' in particular is simply because right now, I seem to be a pretty solid bet for most lenders whereas I'm not sure if my net-worth in stock will be sufficient to get a good mortgage rate since my 'income-to-debt' ratio will be dramatically different.I don't intend to try taking on a bad deal in the short-term just because of the whole mortgage-lendability-risk issue, but I'm trying to figure out how much of an issue it really even is in the first place and how much I should take it into consideration.If I don't have an active income, presumably (and please, correct me if I'm wrong here) I'd still have some potential to get mortgages, but they'd be at a higher rate (e.g. maybe a couple percentage points higher)?

Your chances of surviving such an event probably depends on how leveraged you are and whether you have sufficient reserves to make it through.

Regarding your concerns about lawsuits, my opinion is that it would be sufficient to just disclose. 

Ritch it looks like you have a vast amount of knowledge and time in real investing and I think you would be an asset to the group.  

For those minor repairs I believe just giving a couple days notice would be sufficient.

This is why some buyers when inquiring never hear back from busy commercial brokers because those brokers with vast years of experience can tell by a simple e-mail what the buyer is trying to do and odds of success.

Hello BP Members,I'd like to get feedback from OWNERS operating their own SELF SUFFICIENT/INDEPENDENT real estate investment business, regarding the best entity structure of choice?

Need help from the vast knowledge in here. 

If it's basic day to day items, and if you don't store tons of photos / videos on it, anything with 8GB of ram would be sufficient in today's market.