One extra principal payment every month.

So, you PAY them EXTRA for that.

Luckily, for me, my cleaning lady was there turned off the water and for a small extra fee of $50 cleaned up the rest of the water. 

Your agent represents you and needs to know what's going on, and they can usually glean some extra details from the MLS and/or a phone call to a listing agent prior to making said offer, and advise you accordingly.Furthermore, no listing agent worth their salt is going to tell you, "sure...my buyer will accept an offer of X amount".

For example, if the property is worth 300K and the current mortgage is 200K, you will assume the 200K but need the extra 100K to cover the gap. 

For a small extra fee they can file the annual meetings for your each year. 

Some amounts may go up or down and some may disappear if you have already saved enough for that item and it’s in extra innings. 

Recently we helped a few investors buy for 20% below the peak with extra concessions. 

I'd also like to share some of the extra informative women on BP that I've been following over the years, in case you find them as helpful in the future as I have:@Brie Schmidthas been inspiring to me, as another young investor breaking free with RE to travel and enjoy life :)  @Elizabeth Colegroveis a super sharp landlord with a BP blog I got to see again in person recently :) @Marcia Maynardwas nice enough to come out to speak at my Summit in SF as a great landlord (and person) and one of the prolific female landlord contributors to BP.

If the house were minimally livable based on other prices of houses in the neighborhood, excluding the extra land what do you think the house is worth if you had to sell it?