I bid my number, rejected their full price counter, and recountered by agreeing to a 10% earnest deposit and bumping up my bid a few thou.

I did not recounter, but the property did drop by 10% after 30 days.

Some of this is state-specific, and there are such things as "prescribed" easements, where it becomes one de facto because it's been there so long, but beyond that, running a utility system I can recount a number of times where this has been an issue, and the property owner dug up the connection at the property line, capped it, and told the neighbor to pound sand.

I put in an initial offer of 85 thousand dollars, the seller countered and I re countered and we ended up agreeing on 87 thousand.

We went through the counter and re counter with bank in Nov and we accepted banks offer in early Dec.

Forgot to mention all that when I recounted what I've done so far.

Testimony that the judge can see or hear for him/herself is much more powerful than me recounting a phone conversation.By all means, hire a qualified attorney who specializes in landlord-tenant law to do the entire eviction process for you.

While I can't know what Morris' motivations are, or what's in his heart, what I can do is recount what happened.

You'll see numerous posts recounting the perils of long distance investing.

While unfortunately I don´t have any good input for you, I have to say that this reminds me of one of the BP podcasts; someone recounted a story where their 2 local roofing options turned out to be owned by a father and son, where they significantly overbid one price and still overbid the lower one, but in comparison the lower bid looked much more attractive.