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...

They both insist that there are creative ways to structure this deal so that me and my mother can LEGALLY , and secured by CONRACT, be able to collect the net proceeds, and split it 50/50 as her and I agreed from the start.One of the proposed arrangements I researched and sought legal consul for, and am fairly certain would in fact still be an act of fraud.A broker brought in an investor who proposed the idea of purchasing the Mortgage Note, and giving us the difference, secured of course in advance by a contract where we would agree to forfeit the Security(house) once the note was purchased. 

After meeting this applicant we became concerned because they had so many ammenments they wanted to make to the lease (the lease was not signed nor do we have a deposit from them), insistance of blinds in the kitchen area for privacy, plus we got an overall uneasy feeling about this person.