You're more likely to pressure an agent that we call "Part-Time Patty" into giving away her income, but you'll get what you pay for.Patty (not a real person) has blond hair, blue eyes, 2 1/2 kids and a puppy. 

We really thoroughly combed the market to decide where we wanted to buy.

Jon,thanks for the walk through, your right its a lot of cash and equity into one place, which I guess is kind of why I'm posing here to get a sense of it from a non-homeowner perspective like yours.the idea of 'combing' needs just creates compromises is an interesting one, maybe on target in general.

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

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.

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

Started going over everything with a fine tooth comb and wanted everything repaired (as a tenant), contract to buy was as is, with me fixing 4 things which I did before she moved in to rent.  

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 you might have paid a hair too much.