This is a very well to do area, you must have connections in finance realm that might be able to get creative with the numbers, or personal connections that would be willing to ease the burden for you over the short term and get a cut of your profits on future flips where you stay within your profitable sweet spot.Your other set of possibilities are legal, and that is really something you need a good PA real estate attorney to pour over your loan docs to see what your options are. https://www.foxrothschild.com/gregory-j-kleiber/

If the location is bad, maybe cut your losses.

I like planting trees rather than cutting down my trees as they are maturing.

Our system does not ever cut them off of benefits and does not pay the landlords rent directly. 

Sometimes they’ll ask you to cut your commission (which is negotiable).

Initially, I thought of the $2k "profit" a month being cut down to $1k a month with water bills and various repairs here and there.

I might even be able to get away with a slightly lower bid on the property in exchange for a chance at a higher payout in the future.My initial concern is that their cut might have to be cost prohibitively high in order to be appealing.

Let the owner know that we would love to cut their grass for free with no strings attached. 

@Jay HinrichsCorrect me if I'm wrong but the way I read The Tax Cuts and Job Acts for upcoming 2018 tax is that standards deduction is 12k for single/24k for married, making many people not able to use the reduce SALT deduction.Even if I'm to claim tax credit on my resident tax form for taxes paid in other state.....the property taxes, state income tax and local tax are only deductible up to $10k. 

So it turns out they admitted they cut corners, skipped the required community vote and went straight to construction.