.- Similarly, Medium to Large Private businesses / private equity seem at all time highs in terms of multiples and valuations, perhaps edging back a hair from where they were a year ago- I've long thought that small private businesses, especially in the services sector are poised to do very well as an asset class (lots of opportunity to buy businesses for 1-3X Cash flow in this space).

Find a Grey hair mentor that will spill his or her guts for the cost of coffee or lunch.  

Sure you might have paid a hair too much.  

.....Ready to have your hair blown back?    

What they want to do is turn a sow's ear into a silk purse, if they would accept the fact that a sow's hair can just make a good bag, until one can afford a silk purse we'd be better off. 

Sure enough, the whole circus started and I wanted to pull my hair out.

Let the buyers look, stay out of their hair & answer any questions they have.

Don't worry, I'll get a hair cut and shave this weekend.

Wait until the current owner's financial position has improved and then buy a house.No one here provided an answer as an attorney so to suggest ways to skirt the issue of having the current owner stay in the house and not benefit is splitting hairs ... frogs hairs at that.The easier solution is just to move and hire an attorney to hound the deadbeat dad.

I know, a bad hair day.