Lots of emotions as they declined in health there.  

If a realty agent has a problem submitting a low offer, he/she is worrying too much about the other party who are consenting adults under the law and can make their own decisions and research to decline, accept, or counter the offer.

So all of a sudden you have a decline in collected rents, your cash-flow sails out the window, you're paying 18% on credit card debt, and with lower equity you literally can't afford to sell the property because you can't afford the debt payoff and the realtor commission, closing costs, etc.  

(or if you wish you could decline to sign earlier and show up on the day of closing - I have never done it myself but I suppose that is an option)There is no way you want to sign it and just hand it over to the attorney.

Therefore, respectively, I will need to decline this offer at this time.

Is it up and coming (appreciating in value), stabilizing (a matured market) or currently declining?  

I disagree completely that Houston will experience anything close to the population decline New Orleans saw after Katrina.

., completion of new constructions coming to markets with incentives for renters), and he expects rental price to stagnate or decline a little in the foreseeable future. 

If you buy multis in bad areas or declining areas you are just asking for trouble.

She can decline your "offer".