So unless that piece of paper is good for another 2 years, they're dead in the water, and you'd only be doing them a FAVOR... worth $45K to them?

Why flog a dead horse irritating the Realtors and the sellers?

I've heard Cali is moving quickly - must be nice - my area is dead!

Driving for Dollars can create lots of work for yourself and dead ends and wasted time and gas.What's your strategy for closing a deal - do you understand creative financing - Are you a cash buyer (right?)

But if you are dead set on buying something now, that could be a way to go. 

This guy must be dead broke.

You are presently loosing a boat load of money by having properties with dead equity.

That's more conservative than a lot of people, and I agree that dead equity is money not working for you, but I'm comfortable with my strategy and it has been successful for me.

Once this job ends, I might have an opportunity to go back to California (that's where I'm from) and work another dead end job (doing the same thing) for $55/hr for another couple of months, but unsure if it'll pan out.

My partner and I have a property in SE Portland that is in the final stages of development for a duplex.We purchased the property with the intention of rehabbing the home on the front end of the lot and then partitioning two additional lots behind the home that will be accessed from a dead-end street and not requiring a flag lot.