Any creative concessions or innovative solutions you've utilized for yourself or buyers or sellers recently?

The 60/70 yo couple that made an offer could get only 125K, not the 140 they offered.
They have to keep their payments at 900 a month, and were planning to get an FHA loan since they don't have the 20% down for conve...

I'm interested in innovative ways to lower the risk and increase ROI in areas such as Detroit.Thanks everyone for your help!

I think you already have some great input from @Joel Owens and @Jeff Filali but let me say a couple of other things.The people that think commercial real estate are threatened by technological innovation are very limited in their thinking.

Steve Jobs was a prodigy and probably one of the greatest motivators/innovators of our time.

Briefly, bought a house $500 down, 70k, owner financed,(Nov. '09) ended up gutting most of it, not planned, lived through dirt, dust, construction, family feuds, more feuds, aggressively paid down mortgage, re-fied - pulled out 40k in Nov.

The flat overhead costs of compliance are too great for a small firm, or for an innovator that wants to start a small mortgage firm & grow.

Hopes in NOV.

If you bought in Nov 15 and then sold Feb 16.

The Bay stays the hotbed of tech innovation and may see even further growth.