This will give you time to negotiate for those items and if they balk you can walk without losing earnest money.

Mike Harris Nick Vertucci and company.now most of the folks I see that do the what I call buy direct model.. have the buyer pay cash and then refi.. so they won't lose the house to me like the old days but they could have their cash frozen.so its critical to have your refi set up upfront..

I would have $2-3k in reserve for these...Realize you may lose some or all of the existing tenants when he sells..

The City is regressive on many levels and they will keep losing legal battles as long as they use taxes and fees as there only revenue generator.

The best equity is the equity you spend (or reinvest elsewhere)  before you lose it...

Your rent ratios are excellent but make sure that you do not lose on profits with deferred maintenance.

If I don't find a buyer in 45 days, I lose the contract.

If things go bad you can walk away and lose nothing.

If they don't bite now people have a way of changing their mind the day before an auction and they realize they are going to lose the house.

Was the seller represented by a Real estate broker .. as we don't use attorneys in CA very often for these vanilla deals.If she let some wholesaler type person talk her into this then she is totally screwed.take no offense but non licensed wholesalers are very very dangerous for most folks to deal with as they don't know enough about real estate ( most being new) and or they are only out for themselves and could care less about the seller..