Your period of controling the property needs to exceed the term of your buyer.Next, rent credits, see what the lender will apply as rent credits, they may keep you to only amounts paid in excess of fair market rents which would put your buyer thinking they have more equity than the lender will allow, which means they come up short at loan time unless they have other savings and the deal falls through.Next, it is not permissible for a tenant to agree to pay for maintenance for a property as that is consider paid in the rental amounts to the landlord and is noraml wear and tear of and in the business of the landlord....so check in your area as how they view such an arrangement.I breezed over the numbers, make sure that your property will appraise out for your selling price to your buyer when the deal ends.

We even had to sign the permission forms for them to obtain 2 years of tax returns, although they didn't ask us, personally, to provide the returns.

Its my understanding that this might be OK, if permission was requested from the proper agency (the department of labor, IIRC.)

I always get permission to put a lock box on the house to show it (the properties are almost always vacant).

And if they don't have any keys to send, then you will need a locksmith - but permission of owner must be obtained ahead of time.

Then you have go to court again based on the first judgement, and they have to answer questions about their finances and work, I think, and then you get the permission to garnish wages, and then you have to start that somehow.

Sometimes they have a particular inventor backing the loan that they have to get permissions from.

The lender will only speak with the seller or someone that the seller gives permission to speak on their behalf.

That is the only way to verify any income they have from the business, unless they have a CPA who can supply a certification of income (but the CPA probably did the tax returns anyway).Application isn't processed until it is "complete" - all needed paperwork in hand, and SIGNATURES on permission and authorization forms.

By risks I am thinking of both improvements that go wrong and planning issues where you do not get permission to do what you expect.The land is like a tool.