I believe I have a strong case, but I'd like some opinions as it will be difficult for me to continue paying the mortgage on the property month after month if the other parties try to stretch this out and postpone.A quick background: I bought a 100-year old house in upstate NY overlooking Lake Ontario with its own private beachfront. 

I think the biggest risk is if i miss the boat on stretching a bit to buy something here in California, but I think the market is slowing here. 

I realize it may be a stretch but you may want to at least explore this. 

Well, financing as we know it hasn't been around forever Dion, only about 700 years, but it's not a stretch to go back over 2000 for cash sales, if you include goats, horses, chickens, daughters and such with agreements not to attack or go to war.

I could stretch out the relationship and have 3 meetings exceeding 1 month and then they'd be in the "Associates" bucket.

Do I try and stretch out the time between contacts to 120 days so I can work on another zip code, or do I put all my focus on this one zip code and hit them more often?

After failing to convince the 1st to take a short (which was a stretch since it is really not a short sale at all) and realizing it is in the 7th year of a 15 year mortgage, I changed gears and looked for a seller financing candidate.After the arrears are paid and a little sweat equity, the property will have equity since much of the arrears will go towards principal.

And that still presumes that you could observe unbiasedly, which is a big stretch (nothing to do with you, more to do with human nature).

Hi Jeffrey-Thanks for the quick reply.By no stretch of imagination, I consider myself a seasoned investor, but I completely see your point about not buying many properties from wholesaler on a regular basis.I am getting to a point where I am getting my name out there to homeowners and getting calls straight from them.

â€I am collecting my Yeses and when I say $18,000 dollars I am stretching the word and saying it like oh my goodness that’s a lot of money.REI Statement: “Here is what I am willing to do.