When an Agent sends you a lead and based on the photos there seems to be a tad bit or zero property distress evident in the photos.

I think the emergency/specific ones are a bit better value then the maintenance ones, but I have no evidence to back that up.

Early conversation lead me understand that the seller, a retired businesswoman, purchased the property as an investment, yet there was clear evidence that she had not been managing the property as well as could be.

If you told him you have been playing pickup games for the past year and need help improving your jump shot, now he has evidence you're motivated and a specific goal he can quickly help you work towards.

All evidence has pointed to that being a pretty hard and fast rule of thumb that one ignores at their peril.OTOH, I think there is an underlying idea that owning a rental that currently has negative cash flow when the 50% rule is properly considered may be acceptable.

He never presented the offer to the bank (& probably not to the seller), but I have no physical evidence to prove it or I would go after his license.

And so I bought the Quail Ridge in HGTV and they ended up giving me the Superpaint at the HGTV Home price because they were out of the HGTV Home base that would work with the Merino (evidently Merino and Quail Ridge use a different base)I got semi-gloss for both colors and neither appeared shiny. 

[TRELA §1101.652(b)(9)] Further, paying operating expenses or making withdrawals from a broker’s trust account for any purpose other than proper disbursement of money held in trust is prima facie evidence of commingling.

One additional question, given the extensive repairs, what evidence would be best to present to the seller?

So, does B&C have a copy of any down payment or check to evidence their claim of a sale?