That should stifle his desire to try and fight this.Put in the letter that cashing the check constitutes his agreement with your repair estimate.

For wholesalers the competition is fierce and so many players are fighting over leads that it is very hard (lots of marketing $$$$) to get houses under contract at this time. 

Whereas a 20-something white person with middle-class parents who goes down to the bar, gets drunk, and gets in a fight might receive an aggravated assault charge he gets 30 days in the local slam for, a 20-something black person raised in poverty is far more like to get a terroristic threats charge, a battery charge, and is then charged with resisting arrest.

Make the local small banks fight to give you a loan!

it was not worth fighting the 1k fine.. though :)  

@David FriedmanYes you are correct, it is almost like a reverse mortgage and yes there is a huge element of speculation to assuming a 2% increase in property value for the next 30 years (although it is in Irvine near the University!).

The real question is "If I do a LO and the resident fights it what happens?"

www.noprop10.org/‎https://caanet.org/caa-warns-that-prop-10-would-ca...California apartment association is fighting it. 

@Malia Irvine put yourself on the other side .

To me at least, it sounds expensive and it would surprise me a bit that he would so quickly change face without any fight.