Or is it just a roll of the dice, good faith if I pay this you better sell to me and do the right thing?

Fantastic to have so much faith and take massive action to make your dreams come true.

Knowing who negotiates in good faith and who is an a**hole,  knowing who can close and who wont (This extends to accepting offers with financing from certain lenders) all lends weight and credibility to the offer, or detracts from the offer.

As long as the landlord and the tenant are acting in good faith, and not looking to avoid responsibilities.

I'm having faith that whatever I decide, it will work out as well but I must be smart about this, can't throw it all in the air and see what sticks in this situation.  

I am still in the feeling out stage but I know eventually I'll have to take that leap of faith at some point.  

I guess what I am wondering is that if this long just to get the Good Faith Estimate (still nothing), then once/if signed we start that 30 day clock to close, Offer on next deal, 30 more days once accepted to close that one. 60 to 90 days to rehab these things. that is alot of in between time.

It's bad faith and bad practice.

He simply wrote a few smart comments and said he left 9K left on the job for me to pay (Even though it needs 20K total left to pay out, and that should be sufficient, and he said he might look around for a few fixtures he can throw my way, GOOD LUCK and Bye...So I have worked with this same contractor on 5 other fix n flips and we had a great relationship, and he talked about his faith and I thought he would at least try to make it right or at least apologize for spending 10 months on this job and he was sorry he dropped the ball, but he didn't.. he just said Good luck while I take the money you gave me for materials..

This is the bond market's way of signaling there is no faith in our economy and a recession follows like clockwork within 18 months.