Plus, if there is a break-up, how do you sell if he wants to be difficult?

They all say the main cost driver is the labor to break up the pool and cement and just filling it with dirt as-is isn't an option.

Understand the fine art of Contract Engineering and creative contract control clauses.Just because you have some money, don't be using all of it to put into real estate, use alternative methods of making offers;Offers subject a study period, one long enough to be able to market and flip the property; this is called cash flow without ownership.Try a Hybrid offer, this is where the seller partners with you (but get your contract right with full disclosures), with a Hybrid offer, the seller will contribute stuff, like repairing the property and put up some money for advertising and take back notes.Try a vertical break up with commercial properties, buy the building, but not the land, lease the dirt with an option to purchase it in the future.

Yes, but you need to break up the pool, you can't just fill it as it will still hold water, then you'll have hydrostatic pressure and then cracking and then settling.Poor concrete in the drain and skimmers, tear out the hardware and boxes, you can leave the plumbing. 

Within five years, it had helped trigger a complete breakdown of civil order and the city's population began to rapidly decline.On July 23, 1967, police attempted to break up a notorious "blind pig" in the heart of the new Model City.

I have also seen it break up friendships.

I guess I'm stuck in a situation where I need to move out of my current property (living at a friends after a breakup) and really don't want to rent for obvious reasons.

See if your sellers will break up the packages. 

Perhaps you can "break up" the seller financing into three seperate seller financing options - 3 deeds of trusts breaking up the total $370k between them. 

This would be like you saying - I want to break up with this girl, but am not man enough to tell her, so should I just obviously cheat on her so she breaks up with me instead?