If you have cash on top, it shouldn't be unreasonable to negotiate yourself into the deal as an equity partner and the member in charge of acquisitions and lease up or exit.

Trulia’s valuation measurements comes from looking at prices compared with the historical norm in each market.Real estate investors in California that rely on hard money lenders to finance their new purchases and refinances have been hitting the appraisal hurdle pretty hard.

Without the financing hurdles, check with your insurance carrier.  

As to the legal technical side, an adverse possessor has many hurdles to price in order to satisfy a judge, not to mention the difficulty noticing all deceased owners' heirs prior to obtaining order allowing legal pub. 

A down payment is a HUGE hurdle for he and his fiance.

He seems like a pretty down to earth guy from first impression (only been to 1 meeting so far) but being new and not having experience it made the hurdles appear alot larger.

I starting to believe he try to delay the project by claiming unreasonable payment(at least according to the contract).

And it's certainly not unreasonable for you to ask.My question to you would be how much of these are you asking for in relationship to the number of offers you're putting in and the number of contracts you're getting.

Now everything clicks into place :-)Ok, now that we've cleared that hurdle, I'm gonna guess that investors avoid sellers with equity because those sellers would be reluctant to give up that equity at a discount?

i could be incorrect about your state but most states don't allow that. if they did, banks would be charging anyone with a loan that amount all day long.If that rent is under $1,000/month your $100 late fee would be considered "unreasonable" by a judge in any legal action were required.