If they choose to fight you on whether or not they need to do it/finance it and you don't actually have in the lease that they are expected to take care of such things, you're going to be eating the bill.That being said, I would never consider letting my tenant's doing anything greater then minimum repairs.

You say:due to the neighborhood and slower sales market here they were forced to rent it outWhen I see statements like this, I hear "they were unwilling to eat the loss at the time, so they rented hoping for better prices in the future.

You would either eat the difference, ask the seller to come down, or meet somewhere in the middle.

I will likely eat a few thousand $ on this but I am going to chalk it up to learning experience.

This Sun thing appears to have issues as originally posted.An option may not have any requirement for an optionee to perform anything, not save money, not eat hot dogs on the 4th of July, nothing, not even to pay another obligation on time, if there is, it's not an option, but a sales agreement.

Personally, I use energy and eat so the inflation I experience at the gas station and the grocery store is much higher than the “official” number.

Personally, I use energy and eat so the inflation I experience at the gas station and the grocery store is much higher than the “official” number.

Must have something against fat guys

It is slowly eating away the side walls of the earth and will eventually get to the foundation.

If it's a NPN the credit card interest will (I'd guess) eat up any room you have to profit on the note and will mean any thing with lead time, like a FC isn't a viable route any more.