DO NOT just rely on a title search, your potentially an unwilling participant in a scheme.

If you're unwilling to drop $300 on plane ticket to go see your property, you shouldn't buy it.Let your amazing property manager dictate where you invest.

There are many times with wholesaling properties that the bank is unwilling to sell you the house if the contract says that you have the right to assign it to another person.

Also, the previous price was in my budget, but the new price I was unwilling to pay.

As well as most of the above "niches" you'll find tired landlords, unwilling landlords and Bad landlords.

Are they refusing to share any income/expense data or are they simply unwilling to provide a formal P&L?

Purchase and Sale Agreement, Sales Contract.Lender has no knowledge of and is unwilling to investigate into latent defects, is selling as-is with some systems not working?

Hi Chris,Did he specifically state that he is unwilling to finance the down payment?  

Get a  good attorney to perform Specific Performance I have done it against a seller unwilling to sell and I have WON the lawsuit against this seller and now he has been given a timeline to close by the judge otherwise court will appoint referee to win , Yes its possible to win as a buyer against a seller but you need to spend money on litigation and time also it took me 5 months to get a judge to give Summary of Judgement .

If he's unwilling to do that, you won't really be able to help him.