My hope is that sharing this might motivate another BPer that was in the same position I was just 12 months ago (or even a couple years ago for that matter).It's hard to believe it's already 3 weeks into 2020...things have been moving SOOOO incredibly fast already while our team has been in the process of finishing the refinance (BRRRR) of 3 single family homes, along with closing on the acquisition of a commercial/small multi-family apartment (13 units total) at the end of this week.

The location is pretty incredible and the area has appreciated 80% in the last 10 years. 

For what it's worth, I started out at age 22, the house was kind of dumpy so I did some initial, minimal cosmetic fixes and got a couple of roommates while I lived in the basement, which was not finished and served as a pretty powerful motivator to get it finished in my spare time.

He is highly motivated to sell the land. 

I would investigate what the motives are for such long contingencies.

I found a duplex, the seller is very motivated, as he was not able to sell for some time now because of the ceiling height issue(height I think it's about 6.4 ft, the city requires minimum 7 ft ).

I'm probably going to wholesale a few to build some capital since I'm pretty tight with 9 kids (feels like 9000 😂)I use my family as motivation to push me forward not as an excuse to why I can't do it.

Wait it out and when the listing expires you have a potentially motivated homeowner.

That's incredible.  

An incredible number of casual LLs here in western PA lower C'class longer-term (multiyear) rentals pocket the security deposit in full as a matter of course.