However, we believe he is alleging that we bought the property "as is" and therefore, that we assume all costs to fix the property despite the source of the damage stemming from his unit.

Zillow is not a reliable source for their estimate nor the sale prices they list for recently sold properties.

I’ll keep educating myself and exploring other sources of knowledge while I continue to save up.

Either source will be just as good at finding a contractor.

This is my first time using a home warranty company and I'm trying to gauge if there is a legitimate shortage and delay with parts or are they intentionally delaying getting the part, could they find it through another source, etc...Googling tells me this is an expensive fix so I feel stuck waiting on the warranty repair, but the tenant is not happy waiting either.

If you find any good sources of education I think it would be great if you posted back on here because others would probably like to know as well.

That said I am rooting for you and hope it is all a very positive move.  

Give us more detail and you'll get better responses.Beyond that I would strongly encourage you to get to the root of your poor credit and starting working on it today. 

Again, Your insurer is the best source of advice on this, but IMO, any client signing this would be very foolish.

Hi Michael, I am wondering if you ever found a good source of information on this.I am currently looking for something similar and it is hard to analyze the deal.