You didn't rely on banks or your normal everyday financing.

I relied on excel spreadsheets to keep track of rent paid, then also had to enter income and expenses separately into quickbooks.  

Lenders will be relying on the current lease and the concerns mentioned in their debt coverage analysis regardless of what an appraiser may use to evaluate value, they are not related areas as one is to cash flow, the other to asset evaluation.

If it turns out that I'm happy with relying on a hopefully superior message via YL, I'll do YL. 

Thank you for the rely @elizabethc.

Because we are were all part time, we heavily relied on our contractors to take responsibility of getting the plans and executing and we went on our Mary way. 

I used to write checks directly to subs, but I can't scale myself, so I have to rely on GCs; otherwise I would spend all of my time on accounting and writing checks to subs.  

If a corporation is involved like this in some development and offer twice + what you paid, I'd sell it and rely on the financial loss arising from the unforeseen unsolicited opportunity as causing a financial hardship and unreasonable loss, stressing that the intent was to live there.

Which means you are relying on mostly luck.

But don't rely on e-mail.