.- You must have a workable strategy.

Yep, looking to tackle a flip down here next to try and build some workable capital!

For example, if one of the tenants has a visitation agreement for their child where the child spends every other weekend with them, then a walk-thru bedroom might be workable because it is only a bedroom a few nights per month, but they NEED a bedroom of some sort.

Off the top of my mind, a lease option is one method to lock in a workable price for a buyer while lowering the seller's monthly operational expense for the duration of the lease term.

We have received listings from a few wholesalers but nothing that seemed workable.

If I had to do it again, with someone I wasn't actual friends with, I'd go hard on an iron clad workable document.If you're the one providing the real value, and they're just cutting a check to sponge on your deal, then my suggestion is to make some terms that work for you and if they're not happy move on.  

Maybe I should accept a lower to no cash flow multifamily as long as my live in unit cost plus the cost of negative cash flow is still affordable and moving me closer to a workable equity situation in a year.

We need more info.Also, if he just bought in 2015, it's unlikely there's enough equity to make this workable.

There's always a number that can make a deal workable. 

Im not pulling the trigger on 315k like you said it's not workable that that number.I offered 275.