Deep regret is what I feel about listening to the gurus telling me to max out 401k contributions early in career. 

I have spent many a day in the deep woods..

You obviously got into the realestate game for a reason and even though the road is a little bit rough right now I think you should just take a deep breath refocus yourself and everything should be OK.

Many people never learn these lessons or don't learn them till much later in life and have dug themselves a hole so deep they can't see out of it.

On top of that, they deep within two separate “war zones”.

@Jared SmithJust saw your post deep in the middle of the page.  

All cash at a deep discount.

The small local QI may not be deep enough to handle intricate questions and give you economies of scale cost wise. 

My first thought was the bank is trying to buy back their foreclosures and eventually want to get rid of the property by selling at a deep discount, but this property was for sale by owner.

In my case, I got the idiot appraiser to increase the value by $15,000 and that was enough to save the deal.So I'd drill down deep on your comps.