If someone could explain the spreadsheets in this article and summarize/simplify the analysis, that would be really helpful! 

@Aaron Mazzrillo  check out this article - it basically summarizes several negotiation books and seminars and gives you the general gist of what they all say. 

I want to summarize what i need.

Here's a pretty good article that summarizes the issues - http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/March-2016/Coo...

Email is preferable, and if you have to have a phone call or face to face conversation then immediately follow it up with an email summarizing the conversation and asking the other party to add anything you missed.

Here's an article I read recently that does a nice job summarizing the approach... http://www.creonline.com/how-to-buy-your-first-commercial-property/

You pretty much summarized what I was thinking.

I had to contact the county recorder for that.To summarize: The inhabitants have no right to sell the property during the redemption period because they no longer own it?

Of course, you were one of the BP contacts I referred to in summarizing Wes's story in this other thread yesterday:- http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/227...We'd love to visit again sometime. 

Therefore, I thought I would summarize what I have heard and post it to see if I am "getting it."