The feedback I usually get is that buyers wanted to assume the loan but the process was lengthy and complicated, and buyers eventually moved on leaving the seller with no equity and option to sell other than writing a fat check at the closing table since they had to continue to lower their price.

Reference: Publication 527 (2022), Residential Rental Property - IRS Table 2-1 Even if the investment property only has "15 years of depreciation in a home left" you are still required to depreciate the new HVAC unit over 27.5 years or 39 years depending on the investment property type.

@Mason Bear how do you know the seller financials aren't "massaged"?

It's time to pull some chips off of the table.

A notification system has been set up whereby the bank holding the underlying mortgage has allowed online access to the church (with our permission)Jay, the fact that the bank has approved this transaction has taken a whole lot of additional needed legal safeguards off the table that would have been necessary in a subject to or wrap that did not have the express written approval of the underlying note holder.

You have no expertise to bring to the table, no contacts, and no reputation.  

I've started the same business 4 times (sold twice, failed twice), and for the first 3 it was a work all day cold calling and spend all night bar tending and waiting tables during the first year or two.

I'll continue to do some contract work (from home) that pays around $1k per month, will substitute teach at my kids' school, maybe pick up a bartending shift here and there because it's fun and nostalgic (waited tables and bartended my way through college and the first 2 years that I started my business), and will chase curiosity to find my next low stakes venture - hopefully something that I can start with my daughters - who are 7 and 10.

If discussing a different business operation, say buying a restaurant, immediately people won't think the value is just the market value of the location, the tables, the broiler, dishwasher, plates, pots and pans, right.

What is it you bring to the table?