You may lose your earnest money but you will not be forced to purchase the property.  

If you sell to an investor, they're also looking for a good deal and tax into consideration RE commissions and you might end up losing money on the deal.

They didn't have the funds to catch up the property so I added value to them by solving their problem of losing the home to tax sale and allowing them to stay put without forcing them to leave.

In my market, having a trendier floor equates to getting a lot more rent so I am not marrying myself to a floor for 20-30 years just to lose potential rent over time.

It steadily loses value until it is worthless.

How much money would you lose taking 1 day off from work?

It’s a matter of time is why I’m asking I don’t want to lose out on the house because I can’t show rental income yet for the first house.

JD Martin - agreed, you'd have to for any post-rental repairs.And yes, I can see how that would be a really great strategy if you were marketing to investors especially.Do you see any potential tax pitfalls where the IRS could still find you doing business as a ‘dealer’ versus ‘investor’ and you lose the tax preferential status?

Faraday Future is a new electric car company that is building a huge manufacturing facility, (not putting a lot of emphasis on this because it can possibly flop you know like Fisker).

The Class A neighborhoods are losing value because of the new construction epidemic.