I'm trying to mitigate risk on my first so I have some pretty specific parameters on the spread, locale, and unknowns, but I'm curious if I'm just not getting in contact with the right people, or if I'm being too selective.Thanks in advance for your thoughts

My own personal opinion (form an unknown guy on the Internet :) is save that cash!

Give that person a regular 3 day notice to evict along with any UNKNOWN TENANTS OR a 7 Day Notice for breaking the lease,for SUBLETTING  and moving everyone in.

That curiosity of my inner soul to find the answers to why I lost everything & how could I have avoided or even make some from that crisis and that journey made me to land in an unchartered open territory as if I opened up the door of the secret society of Global Financial market which was unknown to me but exists in every generation in the human history.

There's nothing unknown about how a contingency works...if your agent can't give you details about when you will and won't lose your EMD, find another agent.

Money's gotta BE somewhere, it's leaving the major indices for parts unknown.

the unknown.

Here are the reasons why......the contractor always bids on worst case scenario on unknowns.

The buyer gave me an offer that was too good to refuse.I have only a vague idea of what the property would sell for in this market but given I was able to stop my rehab and not spend any more out of pocket and not have to deal with any future unknowns it seemed like a good deal.I countered back with a small price increase and better terms.

after all is said and done, it might not be worth all the trouble and expenses to go through when you can get a house with less extensive unknowns for damage.