AFFIDAVIT OF OCCUPANCYApplicant(s) hereby certify and acknowledge that, upon taking title to the real property described above, their occupancy status will be as follows:Primary Residence - Applicant(s)shall occupy, establish, and use the Property as Applicant(s) principal residence within 60 days after closing and shall continue to occupy the Property as Applicant(s) principal residence for at least one year after the date of occupancy, unless Lender otherwise agrees in writing, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, or unless extenuating circumstances exist which are beyond Borrower’s control.

Specify reasonable items that you'll fix as a landlord and what maybe unreasonable.

The penalties in Maryland are steep-up to treble damages and attorney's fees for unreasonably withholding the SD.

A big part of that is due to my fear of opportunity cost and knowing how long conventional financing takes and how many hurdles it has.

They do have the higher monthly fee (and I wouldn't by a condo with an unreasonable fee), they don't go up in value as much as a single family, on poorly run ones (not stratford) you run the risk of a special assesment.

Because of these hurdles, conventional lending isn't an option.

Sharing his opinion that comps show your offers are too low doesn't seem unreasonable.

More often than not, these are going to be your two hurdles you will jump in the first year.

If the seller is unreasonable move on.

I am all for landlords creating some small hurdles for tenants to avoid the time wasters but that is to large of a hurdle.