All that aside, go with your gut: if you think they're genuine, decent people, roll the dice on the hundred bucks (or however much they're trying to hit you for.)

Play within your bank roll.If you have to get too creative then you probably aren't prepared for that level of play.Master your current game and build a large enough bank roll so you can tip toe to the next level. 

Originally posted by @Charlie Fitzgerald:Get a bunch of high school kids to clean it up and give them the porn tapes for payment... 99.99% of the population wont want that porn.... it's on 8mm roll and the pictures on the box (from the 60/70's) show gerbils and tubes. 

Can you get pre-approved from a bank before your next project?

It necessary to pre-drill.

As a condition to the purchase, you can push the problem onto the seller with"upon COE, the property is to be delivered vacant"[a].You also can require the seller to disclose not only the rent roll . . . but the currency of each tenant[b].Upon receipt of the disclosures, you can elect to recant[a].

just an FYI:...being a landlord is about money. nothing else. swallow your pride, pick the  up the money. between vacancy, cleanup, damage, re-renting.....evictions are costly and better avoided. when renewal time rolls around, kick them out. if you have an NRR in the county, use it when that rolls around, and kick them out.  

We've financed several pools where we pre-sold a chunk of the pool above what we had it under contract for to help pay for the assets while walking away with the rest paid for.In one case, I was buying a pool of 50 assets at 50% of FMV with 15 of the assets being located in CA.  

I thought that by giving a larger amount of profits would show that I am willing to do whatever it takes to get the ball rolling.

I can take it if I am ALL wrong :)Hope this gets the ball rolling.