Here're a few posts to guide you further: https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/10850/86626-the-pros-and-cons-of-investing-via-real-estate-syndicationhttps://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/10850/86621-six-steps-approach-to-getting-started-in-real-estate https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/10850/85351-nothing-will-work-until-you-do-maya-angelou

Only because i figure since i'm doing this, I may as well get a better rate.

You may as well.You also don't have to dive in with two feet and build the business on your own right away.

If they would entertain a lower offer, it would be very enticing (not sure they will as I assume it is generating cash and they may as well just sit on it until someone bites closer to their offer, but what do I have to lose...).

He may as well have been swinging a huge red flag as he walked in.Since there are supposedly "many other places that have approved him with only a $500 deposit," he can get to stepping.

Welcome Maya!

The seller will have to deal with the reality of the situation regardless of who the buyer is...may as well be you.

If iam to look at it from your perspective i may as well just pay, its not like i dont have and wouldnt that to hinder my next bank financing

The couple hundred bucks to pump the tank every couple/few years is almost certainly way less than the sewer bill is going to be, so you may as well run it until it's done, right?

I view the end of May as still a bit earlier in this whole Covid ordeal than as the aftermath of it, at least, potentially so.