This initial call was pretty short and I did not want to press too hard right away, especially given his situation. 

Here is an example of the national press we are receiving 

I learned to anticipate the draws and press him for a invoice before the work was final so I could get a draw from my bank to pay him on Friday afternoons.

Benefits of that 2 family would be:better chance of fire for insurance payday1 unit goes vacant you are still bringing in revenue while turningThere is a never ending stream of clueless OOS investors that will give you 70k for the property if you want to unload because they read an article in treehuggers press about Detroit being the "Comeback city"Tenant base will only be marginally worse than you would find in south warrenNOW - lets just give it a few minutes and Travis will be on to tell you I'm wrong on all of this LOL!!!

I would have your insurance agent press your lender to say what they will accept, and go with what they say.

You’re going to be hard-pressed to get a loan without a job especially since lending practices of tightened up.

I think you made some really good points.I differ a bit in that I actually think that the more pressing problem is deflation.

If you try to press the seller to pay for the mold remediation, it could get tied up in court.

I think you'er going to be hard pressed to buy $1mm + for a property and hit the 1% rule.

I pressed on it and my hand went through.