@Dustin Beam - To echo @Russell Brazil's point and chime in on that discussion: If you don't think your agent knows the market, and you don't trust your agent or value their expertise, why on Earth did you hire that particular agent?

For a basement I would expect to find steel beams under those points running transverse to the home and bearing on the exterior foundation walls. 

Got an architect who handles the legalizing process, and the answer I got was I can do it, since others have done it, but the breezeway that connects the house to garage is also enclosed, thus living space, does not have the proper footings, and the garage windows are not large enough to provide a second egress, and the beams that holds up the garage roof is not the required 2x6 beams.

Depending on where you are from, you may have a slab foundation or you may have a stem wall on the perimeter for the house with beams and posts running throughout the center holding up the house (creating a crawl space). 

All three had the same answer: hands down, well maintained quality properties in B neighborhoods.We also heard a presentation from Logan Rankin, one of the fastest growing investors in our area (from 0 to 3500 units in ten years) and he has a laser focus on excellent tenant experiences, upgrading properties inside and outside with an amzing pace (a team of 50 contractors with several trucks full of materials at the property on day 1 after closing, the first full unit rehab completed 48 hours later as a model unit to show etc..).

Once you understand what you want to do you can laser focus only on that and forgot trying a little of this and that and seeing what sticks.

If you had requested an upgrade to mini-splits, then that would be on you.It sounds like either he, or more likely the architect, did not realize that some framing or engineering constrictions (Beams, steel, etc) would not allow the ducting runs.

He had just bought it (for cash) and the roof had a cracked ridge beam as well as unit 2 (the empty one needed a lot of refreshing.Over several weeks as he would do things I would show up and he would let me watch him work.

Most of the homes are pier and beam.

We'll confirm this next Saturday, hopefully no structural wack-job in the beams or something.Anyways, I don't yet see a good reason why an extra 30-day period would be too much asking to warrant refusing non-cash offers.