Hi, I've been in contact with a couple of sellers who are willing to do seller financing or a lease option.While they seem fairly flexible to the terms of the seller financing, when I get to the point of negotiating the actual price, they aren't willing to budge.Am I going about this in the wrong sequence? 

Nowadays it's not unusual for people to receive lots of letters so you'll want to both stand out and send a sequence of timed messages.

Rate of return NOT important, Sequence of withdraw is more important. 

.- With 11 more months on my current apartment lease, do you have any advice on a timeline / sequence for all of this?

Makes me think of the "Push it to the Limit" sequence in Scarface.

Given that, you probably need to engage a lawyer before you do anything to make sure you don't provide a report or mess up the sequence of things  which gives the police ammunition to defend themselves.   

The opposite sequencing of the ADU then driveway (or if you permit them together) would be the case that could cause issues with Oakland. 

So the contractor has to schedule and do the work according to the sequencing of inspections. 

@Juan Rivera Proper Sequence: start interviewing PMs first and start a relationship, then buy a property.

In my opinion, the optimal sequence for using the Podio API is this:Start using Podio API with any code.