5 Days prior to accepting warm bodies into the home. 

To answer your questions in order.....Your headline is: “New Listing Special” You need to be competitively priced but not necessarily “discounted” Don’t take your listings live more than 5 days before accepting warm bodies. 

You can attempt to have them sign a new lease, but they can choose not to.

This local BRRRR is more likely to succeed than attempting an OOS BRRRR.  

It almost looks like some people are getting a bid greedy or attempting to take advantage of people not in the area.  80k-100k in C or worse neighborhood. 

I have secured a buyer's agent and am attempting to move forward with the deal.

In your experience, if any, in polk county what sort of % reduction would you attempt to take off the asking price We are thinking of between 10-15% off asking as a starting point

I was able to find a property that was for sale by the seller who received the property as an estate from his father who passed away, and wants to cash out not being able to handle the renovation that needs to be done (roof, plumbing, flooring).In an attempt to make this enforceable, I was able to get discuss this with the sellers agent and the updates which is that they are in probate court to remove one of heirs as they were all under the contract. 

In regards to inspection, you should take a 2nd party with you for the inspection, if you don't have a second party then use a body cam, if you don't have or don't want to get a body cam, then set your phone on record - extremely important for Tenants that may claim items have gone 'missing' or which claim they were promised items during your inspection.

I'm attempting take cash out of the house in the meantime in case the sale takes longer than expected (4+ months).