What you will find out is people will not treat your house as good as you do and your emotional attachment to this home is going to drain you and probably ruin friendships along the way.

We have tried to buy the person on the lease out, throwing a couple thousand at it, but she insists on getting $300 per month for the remainder of the lease.   

I have a few hundred thousand to leverage, part in equity play, part in cash.

., and the little they do have is BAD, where they stopped paying after 3 months and still owe a few thousand dollars in back-rent to that landlord.

., you see so many hundreds of thousands of realtors offering massive rebates to consumers.From a Realtor's perspective, on a 500k purchase of a listed property:would a realtor rather get ahead of this rebate wave and loan back $10,000 of the commission at a very low rate to the buyer Post Closing and ultimately keep the entire 3 Points?

There are thousands of examples where giving advice could be damaging.

This is done by me and thousands like me every day.

Possibly a base price of (thousands?)

I am not financially ruined because my analysis was flawed.

We are experiencing an annual birth rate of 14.18 births per 1,000; it is estimated we need at least 24.50 births per thousand to sustain our population (can you say immigration?).