If the deal is fat enough and packaged properly, you won't have any problems finding money.Also, like Levi says, you need a narrow, but deep approach to marketing (not a bunch of superficial trials), then, continue to optimize the same approach. 

But there are different forms and variations you can make to that contract to benefit both the investor and the agent.I do not know the law like the back of my hand but I did just go through this process with a residential buyer who had an attorney as a father and we went through a weeklong escapade dealing with the contract so I got a pretty good dose of this from our legal department just recently.I would just make some small tweaks to it so it benefits both of you!

I'm finally getting around to checking out Biggerpockets, I've been investing in rentals since the housing bubble popped, doing it full-time, learned what works, and what don't by trial and error.

., All I am saying is: in order to agree to your Seller friends' REQUIREMENT of net $67k, he doesn't care about the closing costs or future cash-flow variations.

Thank you so much for sharing your trials and tribulations and shedding light on to the NYC house buying process.

I agree 3 month's is a long enough trial period.  

Upon a trial before a circuit court commissioner, or before any other court in this state, when it may become necessary to prove the giving of such notice of forfeiture, the same may be shown by the introduction of due proof of such publication and further proof to the satisfaction of said court, that the circumstances justifying such publication existed at the time thereof.CHAPTER 600 REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961 REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961 CHAPTER 31.

The timeline is probably about in line with this case, if the August 2013 publish date was a few months after the trial.  

(she is retiring next year but will maintain a $100K+ income from annuities and pension etc.).2) A variation on the above idea might be to buy the two properties separately.

YEARS of trial and error have gotten them to the point where they are renovating many houses now.