In my experience it can get very messy, and usually it's the buyer that gets burned. 

My agent doesn't seem to be familiar with working with estoppel agreements, so I'm hoping I could get some insight from the BP community.Here's some quick background info..one of the units is vacant but the other unit (3bd 1ba) has 3 tenants that have been living in there for over 3 years and when I did the initial walkthrough the tenants look very....settled in (they are a bit messy and I'll make a separate post about that).

@Lionel Mosby Jr ended up not working out.

When you make more than a couple changes to an existing lease, it gets messy.

I believe there to be a difference in a warzone atmosphere (which definitely discourages tennants) and honest people who are messy and don't appreciate what they have.

If you show it this way warn the potentials that it is really messy before showing. 

But, hey, who said real estate wasn't messy?

Messy!

I think this is a good possibility and am looking to somehow secure our willingness to pay that right now.Because of the messy abstract and potential bankruptcy (I'm just guessing here and have no details), I don't feel that trying to negotiate this through another agent (who so far has exhibited no familiarity with the property) in a short-sale scenario will get us any closer to that goal.Any insight greatly appreciated.Wm

If you arent it can get messy.