When I fired a contractor earlier this year, he wanted me to make the final check to someone else. i insisted on writing a check to him, with the memo stating it was for work on the specific address and that the work was paid for in full.

If she is insistent on the changes though, you can do one of two things. 1) She can split the cost on mutually agreed items with you. 2) items you don’t agree to split but agree can be changed, she can pay for herself, but the changes will remain after she leaves, and any negative changes or repairs that need to come from her changes will be taken out of her damage deposit.

If not, or if no one has been insisting on the original closing date, a delay of 14 days might not be material (i.e., not matter) and the parties may still have a duty to close in good faith.

Months later still insisting they've got $6,000 of material there.

HUD is insisting that I can not have utilities turned on until I bring the house up to 65 degrees for a minimum of X hours.

Don't believe anyone is insisting that a free and clear property will be draining your bank account month after month; it's more a matter of how you frame the argument.In regards to the original question; the value of property I own / the non-financed equity I have in those properties is about 5. 

After I had a tenant who insisted on coming to my house, sometimes at very odd hours, to drop off his rent check rather than put it in the mail, I decided I really didn’t need to deal with checks at all any more.I really like Venmo because the delay on getting your funds is only 1-2 days for free, whereas Cozy will float your money until the 6th or 7th of the month for payments made on the 1st.

He probably has a lot of contacts and other inside info that would be helpful to you But, you insist on taking another RE route that he doesn' like.

My lawyer (thank god) absolutely insisted that the Bulk sale Act or Bulk Sale Contingency be included in the contract.

A minimum response would leave this industry largely as it is but both tighten regulation and insist that a bigger proportion of the balance sheet be financed with equity or credibly loss-absorbing debt. … A maximum response would be to give the state a monopoly on money creation.”http://positivemoney.org/2014/04/strip-private-ban...