As you may recall, I have some tenants moving out that cooked extensive Indian food which tends to linger a bit more due to all the amazing yummy spices.Can you recommend a good carpet cleaner and maybe the same or se...

Very true @Dennis Mears, the market could support probably 250$ more based on my research (only 2, 2 bed houses for rent in the whole city, and they are going for 200$ more than my proposed $150 more price.) but vacancies are expensive and having them been there 3 years they must be decent, just some bad habits from previous landlords 

My lender wasted more time on a bad appraisal then they did doing math on my offer....In fact I'd assume they probably waste more time doing things such as rebooting their computer or forgetting to hit send on an email....all of which have much greater chance of delaying my deal vs some math.

I'm personally not a fan of the mentioned tactic, and frankly it has given real estate investors in my area a bad name. 

Not bad if you ask me!

Not bad if you ask me!

Not bad if you ask me!

Not bad if you ask me!

Really appreciate any advice, good or bad as need to start somewhere, I have to remember that if they want 3-5 years then I still have to pay extra for that mortgage payment so need to factor that and closing costs into my final agreed price but hear that any repairs from the agreed day forward are the potential buyers concern so I guess they should do an inspection themselves before we agree a price.

Not a bad plan, but I wouldn't count on being able to refi out and do it all over again.