You don't want someone else paying for something you can lose your investment over.

whenever you start 'playing' with the numbers to 'try' to make it work, you'll always end up losing sorry for not reading the rest of the post, I just want to tell you what I think about the first 2 paragraphs.Edit: Jon below me brought up a wonderful point!

That causes people to spend less, and it causes some people to lose their homes.

Yes this is another John Alexander venture.

He needs the money or may go bankrupt and we all lose the property...

Unless the deal makes sense at your current price and the $6K up premium is not worth losing future profits over, my advice would be to let this deal fall through and make another offer based on the new MLS listing price, At this point it comes down to what the property is worth to you and if you are willing to risk the deal over $6K based on your projections.

You can make a lot, and lose a lot too!

We ended up talking about a possible joint venture that would allow our experienced partners to gain entry into a market that they currently have no presence in.

Unfortunately, it generally doesn't work that way -- you have to work hard, and do a lot of things you don't necessarily want to do, if you want to be successful at something.It's sound like you're not willing to do any work that you don't consider "fun," and if you're not willing to do the "crap work" to bootstrap yourself, you might as well give up now.It doesn't sound like real estate (or any real-life business venture) is right for you...

:shoot: We lose a lot of buyers to others who market garbage, but I am in this for the long haul, and work hard to create clients for life!