His complaint is his landlord who lives upstairs has frequent dinner parties at his place, has plenty of guests, and why should he subsidize his landlords cooking particularly when he and his wife eats takeout food as they have no time to cook.

This way it shows I have the money, although it is currently invested in stock, and can easily move that value to cash and transfer to another party within 2 business days.

I am trying to connect to third party inspectors as well.RJ

CA does not allow such an entity standing in court. 

Some contracts have a curing period where the defaulting party can make right by the contract, and cure the breach.

If you don't want the restrictions imposed by the IRS when you do an exchange, and if you don't like the need for a trust managed by a third party who oversees your funds and charges you hefty fees for that, consider the monetized installment sale.

However at 6' I am able to stand in the majority of the room space without worrying about hitting my head. 

I already have a few that both parties agree on. 

They send the worst third party contractors, authorize the least amount of repairs, and take an unacceptable amount of time to dispatch folks and make decisions on how a repair/replacement is to be handled, while your tenants are without their appliance what seems like FOREVER.

Note that you can open an estate as a third party --- had to do it from time to time when I represented lenders and the borrowers died.