Go to redfin or zillow and look at what homes in your area have sold for in the last several months and try to interpret what your seeing3.

Even if it is just a short phone call for general guidance in case something major happens during business hours in your mind, the seller may interpret this as me asking them to drive to a location at all hours of the night.Before submitting an offer I need to make every effort to learn as much about the motivation behind the sale as possible before making an offer.

My interpretation is you a basement / on grade slab is warped and cracked all over the place. 

I think we (as a forum) naturally will find differences in opinion and interpretation, but your closing statement on her is an attack on her livelihood and entirely unnecessary.

When being referred to as being "legal", I only intended it as interpreted at the state level, which has been widely understood. 

The basics seem straightforward but inside them are a myriad of legal interpretations variables and exceptions that have evolved over time.  

I then sat down with my dad to get his take on issues and then went through later with different colored highlighters to note either things I wanted further explanation on, errors that impacted how the document was interpreted, generic statements that were counter to what we had discussed, grammatical errors that needed to be corrected, etc.

I'm finding that things in our area is quite expensive compared to what is talked about in the BP podcasts so I'm trying to interpret the information for our context.

The rights / responsibilities / liability / etc of what is in those leases is generally interpreted as all falling to the new owner.If there are leases in place that YOU are about to be liable for, that are sexist/racist/etc, that otherwise violate fair housing laws, or that give a tenant an ownership interest in the property, don't you want to know BEFORE closing?

I'm not in the field so take my interpretations with a grain of salt.http://www.colliers.com/en-us/sanjosesiliconvalley...http://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/research-and-in...I would phone some leasing & commercial agents in the area if you haven't already.