Feeling uncomfortable with sellers stems from some kind of fear. 

The problems with the project mostly stemmed from the crawl space work, which required shoring, replacing structural members, leveling floors and insulation. 

I wanted to stock it with nice to haves like laundry detergent, drying sheets, shampoo, body wash, conditioner, scent oils for a diffuser etc.

The wrong chemistry, well, see what happens if you put a few drops of brake fluid into dry pool chlorine (actually, do not do this!).

Buyers have pretty much dried up and have the power currently.

Each individual needs to assess their own ability to handle costs over that time frame when cash flow may dry up.

Paid off my primary when it got down to 90K.... not a ton of loan left, so I just paid it off, but still had plenty of $$ to invest in other things...it didnt tap me dry to do it.Exactly. 

Somehow I think it's better to hold onto my own money and keep that dry powder on the sidelines waiting to get into the game if there are some emergency expenditures (haha, very likely with the kinds of deals I'm thinking about in class C neighborhoods).

They are either landlocked or the road leading to it and often than land itself sits inside a dry creek bed known as an arroyo that floods whenever it rains upstream.

I guess the well has run dry.