If you are comfortable renting it, then I would avoid the extension and start the refinance process before your maturity date.

Quote from @Ananth Subramanian: First, it's important to take some breaths and relax.

I just feel much more comfortable with it being proximal enough to make a quick trip, say once a quarter as needed.Caution with the statement: "acquiring a park is hard, management is easy." 

Did you get a line item list of what was done or did he just tell you this is what you owe boss get out that checkbook.I hope you get this worked out to a comfortable price because that's an awful big number to just jump up and bite your checkbook - that's an awful lot of Mc'Donald's cheeseburgers. 

The more comfortable you need to live, the worse the numbers will be. 

The situation escalated to the point of receiving death threats, so I no longer feel comfortable communicating with her.My Goal: I want to determine if filing a partition action is the right path forward to either sell the property or have my share bought out.

Yes, he could do a purchase contract prior to viewing but I would never ask a client to do this because I wouldn't be comfortable with it myself.  

We are preapproved for about 800k but our budget for our first property is between $400-500k and are comfortable putting $70-100k down (the lesser the better). 

What class of properties are you comfortable with? 

I wont say I go above and beyond on fixing up the places and making them jaw dropping beautiful, I still do them up enough to where I would be comfortable living there.