A lot of people felt encouraged by these messages and a lot also made use of this (when it wasn't necessary) as a discussion point to the landlords for not paying rent or having the right the get a discount (otherwise you are not a good landlord giving discounts like all the others).

@Daniel Haberkost This is very encouraging to hear, thank you for sharing that.

I encourage you to read it... and then I encourage you to mandate all your applicants fill out an app with petscreening.com.

Land gives you multiple exit strategies with no improvements (and I would encourage you to avoid doing improvements).

Pending sales growth is the first sign of recovery, so the strong gains in May pending home sales throughout the MSA is encouraging.

I appreciate the encouragement. 

as a plumber and heating contractor, I wouldnt even offer to just change just the evaporator on a unit that's 12 years old.

But I do think like you have leverage here by having the Memorandum of Agreement recorded.I would kindly encourage her to compensate you for the earnest money, your time and the probate attorney fees.

From the responses to this thread already, it seems that there are still great opportunities for me to house hack in SD, which is really encouraging. 

I would encourage you to cut your losses and use this as a painful lesson learned.