My short term goals include keeping my 11 month old daughter breathing and best friend of 11 years (wife of 3) from leaving.  

I could barely breathe from the thought of this.After a few sleepless nights of research it turned out to be an unrecorded satisfaction of lien from when the previous owner refinanced.

And takes off the pressure of hard money loan payments breathing down your neck.

Still when it comes to my money I will wade through sewage, play with mold, take on the termites, breathe god knows what, before I waste on extra buck...absolutely.

It makes me want to lean towards taking an assignment fee, having the security and breathing room from that, and being done with it, but I don't want to sell ourselves short with such a great opportunity. 

Offer the number that works for you and see what they say and give them breathing space.

I pushed out sale dates with signed sale agreements to give some breathing space with an extension, and have also wired funds for the default amount 2 days before a sale date to stop the foreclosure.  

In the meantime we have another rental down there with management in place, so she leased it out at a rate that takes my breath away.

Take a breath. 

That's because they were still breathing in the (now dead) hyphal matter and said matter contains the proteins that they were reacting to.