I rented a office space through Regus for about 3 months as I had an investor who said it would help attract other investors if I had a "real" office.

Warren Buffett: "If I was an investor that was a handy type and I could buy a couple of them at distressed prices and find renters, I think it's a leveraged way of owning a very cheap asset now and I think that's probably as an attractive an investment as you can make now."

The 2% rule is generally for determining what the purchase price of a property should be (and can vary widely in different markets, many markets won't get above 1-1.5% but may have appreciation which might make it attractive to you).

I am a good person and aim to attract good tenants.

Fast forward to today, the condos were never updated and fixed..a few of the buildings burned down, the quality of tenants that it attracts is just awful and now the seller desperately wants to sell but can't since they need 70% of the tenants' vote to sell the property off....I dont know anyone who wants to touch that place with a 10 foot pole.

Usually I wouldn't consider being that far from our investment, but the market there is super attractive for buy and hold.

Considering that, her feeling is that offering Rent to Own and/or low down payment terms simply are not that attractive to buyers who may have easy access to boat loads of cash.

Yes, as James said, it isn't an easy or unequivocally attractive thing this landlording!

Assuming there is equity, I would negotiate a purchase price attractive to me so that I could buy subject to the existing judgment, then hold the property till the judgment expired.

I've looked over the balance sheets of my grandad's properties and the accumulated depreciation lines are extremely attractive to me.