We agreed at the time of closing to a Delayed Possession Agreement for the garage (something I will never do again, BTW, but we were told that the owner was recently widowed, having a hard time and would really appreciate the extra time to clean out the garage, so we wanted to be nice - oops!).

I bought that first house from an elderly widow.

I was recently widowed at the time and was looking for a source of stable income.

paperwork  was signed and money exchanged on March 3rd 2020...Pat and her 2 felon sons have terrorized this small neighborhood  for years and years... we put a contract on the home  in an effort to help the neighborhood, we will be tearing down the home as meth was cooked in it for years... should we stay the course  to buy the property and wait her out or can she really just cry  "I'm  a poor widow,  you tricked me"  and she gets to stay.... any help at all will be helpful  because our attorney  is  completely out of his depth on this... thanks in Florida

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You can build a costs database for standard items like carpet, paint, roofing, siding, widows and doors, kitchens, appliances fixtures, decks, landscaping  etc.

and it looks like it *might* be an old widowed husband there, though nobody has ever seen him outside, and there's a bunch of permit notices stuck to his door.

That is pretty daring for a widow in her 60's.

. - $20-25k over asking price- personal letter to the seller (from Google searches she appears to be a widowed older lady).

Seller is just trying to dump the property as they aren't interested in owning rentals(it's a widow whose husband bought the building years ago) so I know I could probably talk to the selling price down a bit.