We deny showing all the time because people won't share their contact info.

They do not take into consideration the revenue from the STR business as part of the selling price.So if comps say the duplex is worth 500k, then it is worth 500k.

It's part of their contract to get paid and not getting paid is a violation of the contract.

Many times they just do plain vanilla lending.

ya missed that part.. 

Also what part of Jacksonville?

If you want please feel free to add me to your Network would love to be part of the team and I am always happy to help and offer advice or tips on my side of the finance part of things!

In my 30 years doing this I’ve found that as long as you address each issue that comes up properly and do the repair needed to bring that part of the building up to current code then you will be fine.

It will cost the seller more time and energy to sue you than collect on the EMD.  

In the "industry", you would use an "Acquisition/Rehab" loan that allows you to use part of the loan to apply to the purchase of the property and you'll have some loan funds left over to use for the rehab.