If it can potentially take a while and you're looking at 3 months of vacancy and 1 month of stored goods afterwards... perhaps a text message/voicemail offer for $500 (I'm not sure if this is a persuasive amount, maybe someone can give firsthand experience), no eviction on record, plus a u-haul truck to be out in X amt. of days would do the trick!

Also everything I mentioned is not to be perceived as monumental, honestly writing a 5 page essay at midnight in college was a more daunting task.

I can guarantee you that your method would have been tossed by the Court just the same.You can choose a ratio more beneficial than that of the county, but it needs to be more persuasive than what was rejected by the court.Even if you do not have bare land sales, you can probably find comps of similar properties located on different size land, and this is one of several ways to figure out the land value.

You give a very persuasive recommendation!

Our website at wishomes.us had an essay about the advantages on tiny house living, if youre interested.

If you are able to put say 20%-30% down, and pay him 5-8% Interest, that could be a much stronger and persuasive offer, especially since he is "tied" up. 

The prominent venture capitalist, Paul Graham, wrote an great essay on the topic of startups doing things that don't scale - http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

This doesn't answer your question, but I've heard some pretty persuasive arguments for building your own calculator.

I'm fairly new to real estate wholesaling and just wanted to see what tactics experienced wholesalers and investors use to convince sellers to sign their contract and do business with you as opposed to with an agent? ...

along with the art of persuasion and meeting requirements?