If her son isn't willing to take less than 25K - in her mind she would be paying him 5K to get rid of  the property.You might want to frame your offer(65K) as giving them 94% of their original purchase price and 50% of their renovations.

If you are simply interested in getting rid of it, I can close pretty quickly.  

Should we do a Streamline Refinance on our home since the interest rate is much lower that the 4.125 fixed rate we initially took, take the $15,000 equity from our home and put it towards the 20% down payment to get rid of the PMI and have a lesser monthly payment or use that $15,000 towards the purchase of our first investor property?

The seller got rid of his father's house after dealing with probate for over a year.

I'm currently working down near the airport so can't quite get rid of my car yet but a 20 min. drive is a small price to pay for living in the city!

Best of luck and hope you get rid of them!

What if you don't even like dealing with a PM and just want to get rid of the property?

This lead came from a recent widow who wants to get rid of her husband's property.

With that said, I also received about 8 calls this week, none of which were qualified leads...all just called to get more information.Now back to the deal..I met this guy on craigslist a few weeks back as he recently had a leak in the kitchen and wanted to get rid of the house.

Oh, and let's not forget that squatting on a property for 15 years doesn't get rid of the lien.