I have basic question that I'm still unclear on.

I did basically push one incompetent appraiser out of the San Diego market because his appraisals were so bad he was getting the reputation he deserved (I won 2 large appeals and he left when I was appealing a third which sucked for me).  

So we have 3 buckets in my mind - SFH sale (basic), developer sale for the size of land (new to me), business sale (home + business).The most value would be in selling home + business I believe but I have no idea how to market/find potential buyers for such a thing.

Basically, just run deals in your market even if you're not planning to buy.

The only reason I can think of is to cash out all of the money they made and put the risk on investors and basically sell it at market value to themselves..... 

Again, he left me in a pretty great financial position, so I feel like it's good for my soul to at least honor the original vision that he had for it.2) My wife and I still don't know if we are having kids, but we will know that within the next couple of years.

Basically, I would make it very uncomfortable for the tenant to remain in the rental.

And any loan basically at 65 to 70% LTV total if the first goes bad your going to take a huge risk of loss of interest ( almost guaranteed) and loss of principal..

You’re able to learn the basics of a real estate investment with lower risk and build equity at the same time.

Ross:Here are my thoughts:1) "As is" basically says to me they do not intend to give a discount because you suddenly realized the roof needs replacing.