I have no understanding how or why the pilot light went out to begin with, but the service tech said it had been twisted slightly and wouldn't stay lit.

JIm although wholesaling is done on the west coast or in our markets its NOT nearly as prevelant as back east in the mid west and rust belt were you have an over abundance of homes and homes are basically bought sold and traded like auto's... same price points. the wholesalers I know in the PDX market buy at court house steps then resell.. so they own their inventory.. it happens here but its just not a high volume business for the most part@Chris Martin  I closed on in Charleston in June and it was so funny.. the poor wholesaler was so twisted up... we were going to buy but he did not realize they owed more than it was worth.. so they do all this work .. without the benefit of checking title... they thought they were going to make 90k on it and I ended up giving them 6k and they were lucky they got anything... pretty comical really.

I want to somehow make this into a lease violation, but I can't figure out how to twist it to be such at this point.

@Mindy Jensen and @Brandon Turner - Gentle nudge to continue looking into this option :)

It is similar to a lease option but with a twist.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.i say put them in their place gently and carry a big stick lol.we all face the difficulties of being taken seriously.

If it is just one person being stupid I will gently subdue them.

Investment Info:

Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment in Fayetteville.

Purchase price: $263,000

Cash invested: $1,700

Sale price: $292,000

This property is easily my favorite ...

Nothing gentle about it. 

people are people no matter their wealth my two partners in the 2000's could not be more dissimilar  one owned every thing out right and drove a gently used SUV type vehicle.