The following is the way our negotiation went, notice I'm not a very smooth negotiator!

Our contract stipulates that  the house must be vacant 5 days before closing, and the selling agent asked for a 45-day closing to give the tenants enough time/notice.

Sellers seem to want double what common sense dictates should be paid.

@Michael Glaser I was thinking that you could finance them separately, not as a block. 30 year amortization on singles is common.

Yea it's common for hazard events (e.g., fire).

@Prakash Bhatta  The two most common ways people steal electricity are:  1) by tampering with the electrical panel and bypassing the meter  2) or by fraudulently establishing service in someone else's name (i.e. identity theft) and then not paying the bill and just running it up until the service is shut off due to non-payment. 

If it was a normal state, I wouldn't be worried so much about litigation, but in California common sense went up in smoke years ago.

When you have the resources to fix it up I would give him his notice of non renewal and then renovate and re rent it.

Got a tax assessment notice in the mail today.

I just received my property tax notice for a commercial office/warehouse space I own.