The main goal is to complete the short sale and avoid a deficiency judgment for the seller.Bill

The only thing I specified in my lease is that the service is provided as courtesy and that I should not be held liable to the deficiency in quality, strength, or any outage of the service.

They are going to look at you trying to take a cut of the money, and not allow it since there would be deficiency debt.

Are you in a deficiency state?

The Home Inspector report revealed major deficiencies in the rehab and the Home Inspector told me that the rehab was like “putting lipstick on a pig”.

I love Grant, but understand that he has a very specific style- if you adopted his techniques you'd be very deficient in the less bombastic consultative style of sale.Definitely get through the 10x rule for mindset, then listen to a bunch of different sales podcasts.

If you can afford the 10k loss up front - then the repairs and capEx may make up for the deficient amount of rent to at least break even because it sounds like you can afford that cost. 

It sounds like the assets are what you're buying anyway because the cash flow is deficient to support the liabilities.

Now they seek deficiency through collection agency.

This house's layout deficiency is not addressed enough in the staging process.