You won't win everyone over but it's worth trying.It's not a real estate book but I've been reading "Made to Stick" (Chip and Dan Heath) and it discusses how some ideas survive while others die-off. 

If I had a choice, with all other terms being equal, as a seller, I would choose the lower priced offer that's using conventional financing over an FHA offer.The most common things that get called out by FHA looks for is wood rot and chipped paint. 

Maybe we could get a group of 4 and all chip in on it : >The cheapest I think I saw it (a few months back) was about $1600; I don't know, something like that

That way you can earn in multiple ways.Yeah, but if I want to earn in multiple ways I can buy some blue chip stocks and get dividends and appreciation.Oh, man, talk about appreciation!

There's something to be said for having a chip on your shoulder.

@Mark Dammeyer Yellow Letter can work, but buying them will take a nice chip out of your pocket.

Fish and... chips?

(Carrying a big negative cash flow on a vacant bldg/development project sucks ;)  So even investors in prime blue chip markets were at risk (like I was) due to leverage. 

That could still leave you with the eviction to carry out but it would also be a pretty hefty bargaining chip to get a discount. 

@Chip Ferguson Thanks for the suggestion and I have listened to Michael Quarles podcast and I was following that advice and I still do with one change, if their lowest price is way higher than what I am willing to pay I have decided that I am still going to offer my amount anyways.