It boils down to your legal/contractual rights, and whether you want to stand on them to get this seller -- who is now having second thoughts -- to live up to his agreement.If your attorney believes you have legal grounds for forcing them to move forward with the sale, and if you want are willing to fight to get the property, go for it.

I gotta admit, I kind of fell in love with this ugly house and once it gets an addition to solve some of these problems, I think it could be a real gem that buyers fight over.

Not a battle you should be fighting.

This is for the hardcore veteran that is still willing to fight to make the numbers work.

Did they leave are you still fighting them?

If all you have is a W-2 and one rental property, there's probably no reason to get a tax preparer, but if you're like me and you managed to create a 75 page tax return from a week's work of fighting with TurboTax, then you've probably come to the point where you need to hire help. 

They are a particularly awesome (in my opinion) because they are a company that has been actively fighting for financial equal rights for the GLBT community for awhile now. 

. $600 is a decent chunk of change, definitely agree with you on that, but in the end I don't see this as a battle worth fighting. 

If you are close enough possibly have #3 call you and go over when there is a issue.Many landlords would do nothing and let them fight it out till someone leaves.

10-20k for lawyer fees (licenses, contracts and such )  50-100k for recovery reserves ( to fight to get your money back ) OR is this in the form of 15+% of the deal Either way that would reduce the initial capital available from 200k down to 130k on the high side to about 100 on the lower side.