You will be acquiring "goodwill". 

Any info, bad or good, will be greatly appreciated.

I go to goodwill to buy my work clothes.

Franchise fees, licensing, equipment and good will are not exchangeable. 

I thought paying goodwill (slashing off 29k off asking price) with goodwill (letting him stay there for three months at discounted price) would be a win-win for both.

In addition. the notion that white flight automatically assumes areas that were good will be bad speaks to a very ugly bias in my opinion.

If you have a window Ac or want to offer a short term goodwill concession do it.

I imagine someone purchasing this many units can probably just return the faulty ones for replacements pretty easy within the first few years in order to preserve goodwill for future bulk orders.

Now I know that not all investors are flipping, he or she might be buying and holding, so it wouldn't work in that case. in that cast, there is also such a thing as goodwill, meaning you provide the investor the deal without earning a commission on it, but you have most likely created a positive impression on that investor and when he or she does want to sell they would think of you first.

So I used the good will I had with some contractors to put a new roof on, new full exterior paint job, HVAC repair and some other odds and ends; and bill to escrow (so they'd get paid once we close), total about $5500 in work.