@Frankie Renaldi You can frown on Zillow's business model all you want but the fact is Zillow invested millions of $$ into their platform and shouldered all the risk with the hope of making it profitable.

Since the property is 40% vacant you will be in the 25-30% down range and you want to make sure you are being compensated for the additional risk you are shouldering in this situation.

I'd trust an agent over rentometer, but if I am incapable of finding any property near what the agent claims similar properties are renting for, I don't know how to resolve such a blatant disparity in the numbers.How can we tell whether 1) the agent is correct and it is somehow a fluke that everything else implies a far higher number or 2) the agent is making an inaccurate estimate and the rent shoulder be much higher.

The most important thing is I fully trust them, and am not looking over my shoulder. 

The buyer had a cute girlfriend all rubbing up on his shoulder here he is signing loan documents Trump Style.

I really hope I can work with him, but knowing this is a huge weight off of the shoulders.

But we learn and we get up, brush our shoulders off and move on :)Thankfully, I was able to network with a local construction organization that was doing work in the area, and signed the house for a 2 year contract to house out of towner workers. 

For cosigner, I have allowed it on rare occasions, usually it's just an easy way to put it back on their shoulders that they don't qualify instead of many requests for me to accommodate their issues.

You seem to be wearing your emotions on your shoulder.

On multiple occasions the sellers agent just shrugged her shoulders and said I don't know how this works or like I mentioned just played dumb.I would love to hear some opinions!