That's what I'd focus on in your shoes.

I don’t care if she goes to the mall and gets a pair of shoes now and then.

While you may not have as many tax benefits on this deal, If I were in your shoes I would try and balance out my tax strategy on my next 2 to 3 deals. 

Put yourself in the sellers shoes, and then the agents.

Grit - by Angela Duckworth Your Brain at Work - by David Rock*Leadership & Biographies* The Effective Executive - by Peter Drucker The Dictators handbook - by Bruce Bueno de mesquita Titan (John D Rockefeller biography) Shoe Dog (Phil Knight Biography) On the Wings of Eagles - by Ken Follett[Honarable mention] Most anything by John C Maxwell Cable Cowboy (John Malone biography) Sam Walton Made in America (Biography)*General Honarable mention:* How I Built This - podcast by Guy Raz Josh Kaufman personal MBA reading list. 

I am getting tempted to buy one of these T-***** that reads "Don't CA my AZ".If you are a CA liberal please remember that everyone in AZ carries at least one gun, the exterminator will come back every day until the scorpions are gone from your house (allow 2-3 months), and we are native habituate for rattle snakes.If you are a conservative, houses are half the price and twice the size and a good shoe beats the occasional scorpion every time.

If you like the heat, move to Florida or Nevada; need to be near the mountains, Colorado is lovely; never want to have to drive a car again and don't mind living in a shoe box, Manhattan awaits.

I went to work in a $1,000 suit and $500 shoes (was pretty much a requirement, was in senior management) and still pulled up in a truck I bought for less than $1,000.  

As a woman, i'd have the same concern if renting, so i put myself in their shoes -- and also because i don't want to be liable as a landlord if something were to go wrong. 

Now we wait in long lines and take our shoes off and get scanned by advanced technology.