:@Michael PlanteBrave waiving inspection on a sight unseen.I know the neighborhoods I flip in frontwards and backwards When I see the house on Zillow I have already looked it over from the outside,Know how much it should sell for and how long it will take to sell in the current market For fix up cost I figure worse case scenario I will still do ok I only do flips which if it goes to plan it will net me at least 50% of the money I put into it 

I just asked them to pay me (at cost) for the batteries they use, and if some are missing at the end, I'll charge 'em for it.

Cash flow is important to me at this point. 

Not that people don't sell all the time with meat on the bone, but remember the current owner bought it to make money, and brokers have every incentive to paint the rosiest picture possible to make the owner even more money on sale.

I plan to complete those units at a fraction of what new or purchased units would cost me. At

Should I just go to them and ask them to cover the appraisal and bill me at the closing?

I should have kept it as a rental but it never even occurred to me at the time (almost 25 years ago). 

And if you're own strategy is to "just leave" if rent control passes, then perhaps would you like to sell to me at a nice discount? 

If the deal died, it wasn't the right deal for me at this point and time.

I've been looking into hard money lenders, and it seems like a potential solution to increase my purchase/remodel budget, but it seems most of them take a long time to fund the project, so that puts me at a disadvantage (most South Florida buyers seem to be cash buyers now).