I can't promise you future deals won't be stressful (in fact I can promise you they probably will 🤣) but I can also say they'll be easier to handle now that the process isn't entirely new to you.

It was listed for 295k, I offered 280k with 5k of my closing costs covered to reduce my cash to close.

Still, it is a stressful thought knowing your deal rides on one report, especially if your seller is maxed out on his lowest price. 

Typically, not nefarious, it’s still a behavior that operators must prevent to reduce liability or misuse.Kastle’s AI video surveillance immediately alerts our live monitors to confront violators if such infractions occur.

Many tenants/buyers also had the impression the rent payments were reducing their purchase price in some way...so they've paid $5000 down, and $1000/month for 24 months so they think they now have equity of $5000+$24,000, but those were rent payments while they were leasing. 

It'll take you around 30 months (or 2.5 years) to start to see the financial benefits.If you're walking with cash-out plus reducing your monthly by $300, then it's great.

Would that have solved their problem of needing fast cash to purchase their next house while being able to take their time in finding it while not stressing over cleaning the place out?

This will slow your rent up rate, but your will reduce your headaches by about 80%.6. 

As such, I am trying to understand how to objectively estimate a properties value relative to the area - I want to stress both the objectiveness and relativeness of this.

. $550k asking after being reduced from $650k. 2 other buyers fell through over the last few months.