No time to horse around you need to execute a perfect plan to make this work.  

Let's not put the cart before the horse...have you asked the 81 year old Lady if she wants to sell?

. :) we started in the winter of 2010 and it's been a blur after the first 4. we got the first one in march of 2010. second was in  December of 2010. 2011 - we got 2. 2012 - we got 2. 2013 - we got 32014 - we got 62015 so far - we have gotten 5 and have 1 under contract.we had no idea what we were doing in the beginning in terms of the person on the loans, so we were both on them, even though we could have gotten them with either of us. that slowed us down a bit since we hit 4 loans and had to find banks that could do 5-10. then we stalled again trying to find banks that could do 10 for me and 10 for wife (that's where it hurt us that both were on the loans for the first 6.then we just said, screw it, let's look for a bank that give us a LOC. after 55 calls to local banks, i found one that took 7 of our homes under a 20yr 4.95% and gave us the LOC. that's been super helpful. 

He stalled and will now pay the price.

Both upgraded in last several  years, with 1 stall garage.

The bank was working on my application and then stalled once COVID hit.

If not it can sink your real estate investment career or stall if for years or decades saddled with bad debt.Never get emotionally involved in a deal.

Occasionally you run into a seller who thinks his time shouldn't be wasted and whose high on his horse, but typically they regress after their property sits on the market a few months.I do choose my battles very carefully.

They could be stalling if they are waiting on a cash buyer to view the property.

I could be beating a dead horse at this point with this question...I am ready to start planning for my second house hack.