@Wilson Lin ,I don't have another date for now, but I will be announcing them through my meetup group (see website below).

A lease first, with an option to buy at a later date.    

Client and agent schedule a closing date.20.)  

They are weighing the cost of fighting the "quiet title" issue, what they are going to get at auction, the time frame of getting the property to a sale date and the cost of carrying the HOA fees, the property taxes and the homeowners insurance during that time frame.

You are setting a hard date on the eventual sale of the property.  

In Arizona at least, you can go to the county assessor's site and get a lot of that information (sale date, price, sf of bldg & land), if you don't mind doing the work.  

Recently there was a dated home listed up on Canterbury for 599K.

@Johnathan Butler , great job getting things on paper.Take advantage of the time you have from now until your March 15 goal date of getting started.  

In those situations, the statute also provides that the required disclosure must be given by a separate document at least five business days prior to the purchaser executing the contract for deed.13 Like the rule applicable to contracts for deed resulting from a purchase agreement, failure to give timely disclosure prior to executing the bare contract for deed does not affect the validity of the contract for deed.The statutory disclosure (which must be in at least 12-point type and signed and dated by the purchaser) provides information about contracts for deed that may not be known to the typical unsophisticated purchaser from a multiple seller: a contract-for-deed purchaser does not have the protections afforded a tenant or by mortgage foreclosure laws; the purchaser will be obligated to pay homeowner’s insurance and taxes and make repairs and perform maintenance; the purchaser will need to refinance at the time the “balloon” comes due; and the statutory cancellation process can be quick and the consequences severe.

If you don't execute your option and the terms in it by the agreed date then your option to purchase goes away.