Keep her in contract and just say unless you can prove otherwise, the property is worth X... desperation on her part is good for you.

Heather Kavarana,Extension or desperately look.

Given the opportunity, I want to move back to Houston in the near future and hence the reason for looking for properties in Houston.My main issue - Which area to zoom on in HoustonHow to get list of investment grade properties (my last property was found on MLS and the buyer seems to be desperate.

Sounds like they just want to beat you up a bit more on price hoping you are desperate to get the deal done.

If you have a naive or desperate seller that is not represented by an agent, it is easier to get bad offers accepted.

After they new Janell and I were in desperate straights. 

Betting everything you have on one investment is a great way to end up making fear or desperation-motivated decisions, which is almost always the road to disaster.

Because this all happened way to fast, and my in-laws seem desperate to offload the business, we didn't even have a chance to review things with them (not that they would ask us for help with that anyway).

So much of finding that desperate home owner is timing.  

I'm desperate to help my mom generate, and move forward with, a plan... and I'm seeing a brief window of opportunity where she isn't completely closed to the idea (after many years of me trying to get info out of her).