As stated above, make sure you are very careful with an environmentally-sensitive-use property.

People in this situation are very sensitive so you have to handle them with kid gloves, but it is an extremely lucrative niche.  

Because of that, I'm open to safeguards that try to mitigate the consequences to those people. 

All I can figure to do is to safeguard a bit better and keep moving on.They were pretty bold to drill the locks out in the middle of an apartment complex.

Then have your realtor push it through and defer to higher power... my client would love to pay more but based on the condition and work needed this is the highest he can go based on the bank.Another good option (might be hard now) is do some digging to see why they are selling, if it's time sensitive (divorce) then you could make that offer more valuable by making it easy. 30 day close, 2wks inspection, let them keep security deposit/full rent for month of whatever...

Sad but true so just safeguard yourself and your properties.

As many others have mentioned, the bigger concern is if they are overly sensitive/picky or working the system.

Again, in my target areas, houses are flying off the market, so the marketing isn't that big of a deal.I'm particularly sensitive to the double expenses of F&F strategies, because not considering those seems to be the issue with a lot of wholesalers in my market. 

The IRS is very sensitive on how or what IRA funds are being utilized for.

They can have built in macros, seneario sensitivity anlysis, and any other feature they may need.