Hi Justin,Lease Option Assignments work, especially in nice school districts.I call on-Expired ListingsListed HousesFSBOsLandlordsI explain 3 situations to home sellers:If you sell with the agent, what the costs to sell are - commission, -closing costs, -seller's concessions, and - maybe a price reduction if not priced to meet the market,these costs can approach 12 - 15% of appraisal.If you rent, you have an unproven tenant that could care less about you the rich landlord.

They will at some point and I'm slowly starting to see DOM increase, reductions and lower sales price percent vs asking.

Also, I felt that once I had a 10k reduction that it left me some room for a new hvac or whatever was wrong.

And this was after already allowing a payment reduction two years earlier instead of foreclosing then. 

You open yourself up for liability if they fail to complete the task and someone is injured.By the way, I don't recommend a rent reduction.

Two are still on the market with no interest in spite of price reductions. 

There's also the principal reduction that happens automagically and expense costs that are covered courtesy of carefully selected tenants, not to mention depreciation and other tax advantages. 

All of our units have seen a $100 a night increase in price due to the reduction of supply.

A temporary reduction in cash flow, while painful, will not mean the loss of the asset. 

If they want to test the market have in the listing agreement where " You will try their price for 2 weeks and then there are automatic price reductions built in to the listing agreement ".This way you are not begging for a reduction.