Other options, you can buy, close, then sell wholesale.Bank owned properties are typically not assaignable,  You can do a double close if you use your own title company to close and they are amendable.

Realtors can work with installment deals, they and the broker must amend the listing agreement as a commission is due when title changes, so you need to walk them through the modification and it's best to say when commissions will be paid in the offer, they will change their tune if they see they are getting paid and if the deal is workable for their client.Study the basics of RE before trying to learn the tricks of how to sell or buy RE!

If so, then a reforclosure or amended foreclosure would cure it.  

He should have put in a repair amendment when some inspections were done.  

The IRS Form 1065 (Partnership Tax Return) was amended in 2008 and actually asks if you have dropped the property out of the partnership and then immediately sold and structured a 1031 Exchange during the last two income tax years. 

Is it safe to say that when making an offer on REO properties you should always make the offer as cash even when using hard money then amending the contract to reflect financing after acceptance?

Should I do a new lease or an amendment whith the new amount? 

We're on hard-packed clay, so amending the soil has been quite the process.

I see several options: refinance with private/portfolio lenders without the clause, or call my lender and ask nicely (ha ha) to amend the contract, or pressure my lender into putting it in writing because I’ll take my business elsewhere (essentially threatening refinance with another institution and strike the clause during negotiations). 2.Referring to question 1, the reason for moving the assets is to establish an LLC with something of substance, so that it can be leveraged in future deals.

Our realtor said they are sending over an amendment which includes moving the closing date to the end of this month (It was originally 30 days out from the date the offer was written, June 8th).