If you’ve already settled on a number with the seller, you may have an opportunity to slow walk them through new information to adjust the price.

I knew it deep down but I want it so bad I was willing to take the risk.

Key thing I have learned is don't dig deep and dig at night if possible.  

Or are they wide, deep cracks?

I didn't want my first deal to be a bad one and slow me down in anyway.Honestly, I would have been just as happy if I broke even on this deal.

Very slow and tons of things you need to provide them.

The BRRRR Method has years and years of history and success buying off market properties at a deep discount in a state of disrepair.  

Maybe they are super slow to foreclose....so you can rent it out month to month until they do.I would not suggest these as a 1st time learning experience. 

And the only thing that sometimes hurt me in D. was that he is soooooooooo honest and he wouldn't do anything which doesn't comply to his moral values, His honor is just huge, and I certainly respect it a lot.I live in so called "depressed" area in CA, and I had cash on top of everything else (credit score, job, etc.) and I had NIGHTMARES for a year I was going through the real estate process that D. could leave me and I'd have to again deal with slow, lazy and unprofessional real estate agents.K. is D.'

We’ve all heard the saying, “It’s better to bet on the jockey than to bet on the horse” because a good jockey can make a bad horse run fast, and bad jockey can make a good horse run slow.