But practically, sounds like you are beating a dead horse. 

I'm not dead set on one option.  

Jim, if you hadn't applied pressure like that, he would have just bled right out dead.

I know how we handle this issue in our own house, but that requires us to occasionally dispose of a dead mouse, something a vacationer is not going to want to do. 

I think the industry is almost dead now right? 

If this item 1 dead ends do I have a small claims case? 

Even if you were to pull out your equity now the lower return on the properties combined with the higher returns on your investment in a fund would be higher.Real estate is the last place you want to park dead cash you have no possible use for.

Sometime we really unerestimate the power and strength of financial traps, take heed, they can be deadly. 

This is why Memphis is such a dead dead dead market along with so many other rust belt zero job growth cities.Learn how to sniff out where employers are moving, opening up new plants, divisions, hiring, then buy rentals in the path of that progress. 

@Ellis Thurman Jr right... if the mortgage balance is greater than your offer, the deal is likely dead.