Stop wasting money on clothes, crafts (women) ,hobbies (Men), CARS and new furniture.

If you agree to the language then lender legal charges are generally smaller but if your attorney and the lenders attorney has to custom craft something then the costs could go over 10,000 in legal fees or more.

Because you're not looking to "buy houses", rather take over property management, you can craft a different message to garner interest.

I guess the lesson is what most people already know, ignoring the "asking" price and just craft deal terms that work for you

For example, in my market (Atlanta) I can craft deals with a cash-on-cash return of 12-14%, so a 10.68% return is not as interesting.

So you might end up crafting statements on QuickBooks or Excel.

Get a good commercial attorney familiar with retail to craft the lease. 

It's worth the money to use a commercial retail attorney to craft the documents.The REALTOR type forms tend to be a catch all for leasing to various tenant types in commercial so therefor can be vague and not specific enough to a specific asset class and a situation .

We don't anticipate much income aside from selling crafts and doing outdoor jobs, we have savings for the rest. 

Luckily the seller has meticulously been maintaining the property for over 15 years.