If you'd like-- you can always add an expiration to the offer to add urgency and not get caught waiting while other deals are coming and going-- I would personally recommend at least 2 business days out as an appropriate amount of time for expiration or opportunity for the seller’s side to respond.3.

If the space allows, you may also want to consider converting it to multiple mini executive offices that are rented on an individual basis, ever since covid and the work-from-home thing has taken off, larger office space is tanking because more and more companies are still learning that they can shut down their office completely and go remote, and there are others who are just waiting for their leases to expire so they can go remote, so I don't see larger office space bouncing back soon, if ever. 

You can get them to sign a new lease to start when the current one expires, I don't see the value in it. 

You may need to run your credit later on again since that expires, but at least you would be less likely to run into a problem when you are ready to buy.

So if it is a 5 month lease you either need  to get the current landlord to negotiate with the tenant to terminate early, or you need to wait to close until closer to their lease expiration.

So is RedX, which can give you properties based on For Sale by Owner, Expired Listings, plus geofarming.

FSBOs and Expired listings have raised their hand saying they want to sell...look at me.How many of your life coaching clients are ready to move with new jobs?...

As the leases expired we didn’t renew the back two units and set to renovating them.

Agents of near expired listings.

They have been late one time only once in 10 months and the lease expires in May.