LEARN Step 2: Ignore Step 1 and Don't bother researching anything seriously until the sale ends and you are in the rebid window. 

If I run several faucets for 15 minutes and flush the toilets and there's no back up, then I don't bother with the sewer inspection.

@John Thedford . lol, that's part of my standard pitch, as in " I'm not that worried about previous convictions, as long as you don't bother children and have never killed your landlord "

I think this could have easily been a point of negotiation had I bothered to analyze comparable homes.

If there are homeless shelters, they would flock there and continue to not bother to get a job.Some poor ghettos would be demolished altogether (not necessarily a bad thing), and the thugs would relocate to other ghettos.

This wouldn't bother me much.

So maintenance is usually expected to be around 5% which is what I'm seeing with my other properties I have bought from him.I understand that some rate of routine maintenance is expected but the frequency of repairs is really what bothers me.

I like not being a criminal so far in life, so I don't bother with break-ins!

The flow rate and potability sample could not be done, because the well is not functional.I know nothing about wells and am wondering if I should not bother with this house or bid on it.

If so, why are you bothering with the headaches of a Laundry Room?