I really don’t want to lose this buyer—what’s the best way to make this work?

Great to know your making moves again this year.

Multiple offer situations, appraisal gap scenarios and even waved inspections.For my fellow Realtors and investors out there... how are you all doing and how's your markets temperature?  

Besides having a personal friend to mentor you, this is the next best place to learn.

This number carries over into the two replacement properties.You don't mention capitalized improvements so I have to assume that your adjusted cost basis in the relinquished property is $230k. 

This got me to thinking about our project we built here in Oregon we has a significant amount of buyers out of the 90 homes we built sell bigger homes or mainly OLDER homes to buy a new one and do some down sizing and big thing was quality of home upgrades from a 60 year old home to a brand new one with a few tweaks we do for age in place like zero threshold showers etc.

@Stanley Nguyen there really isn't a way around this.

RE is a great industry but not with out its up s and downs.. thats for sure.

Purchase price: $375,000 Cash invested: $60,000 Sale price: $525,000 This home was build in the 1980's.

If you achieved this by paying all cash, then you are losing money.