You have to start off on the right foot.

If they are not standard sizes  ( generally in the foot  sizes ) 36 x 36 .   24x 48. 

We are experiencing some slow down on the seller side (less homes being listed as we head into the Holidays) yet buyer demand is as strong as ever with all price points tracked under a week on the market.I have 8 flips going on right now and normally I am hesitant to do too much work in November and December because we end up listing in January and February.

I’d love to hear others’ thoughts on this.I think a lot of new things need to fall into place under the "new normal" with which we are currently operating before we can predict anything.

While I can understand some of the desire for rent control there are other more practical and productive ways to assist families in need of housing (IE fix the broken section 8 programs around the country)  I would prefer however that all of you out of state investors get out of "our town" so that the prices can go back to normal for us locals, which should in turn help keep rents down a bit locally .....

It passed no problem and the appraisal was done twice as fast as a normal appraisal in our market.Write a letter to the sellers with your offers too and sooner or later you will find someone who wants to sell to a veteran even if it means $5-10k less than another offer.Best of luck and thank you for your service!

Does any of this seem normal?

However, I don't know if "new contract" means the seller wants to take the existing EMD and have a new contract for a new EMD amount...if so, is that normal?

Normally accomplish by asking them to give you the new account numbers for electro and gas.I’m just pulling this off the top of my head but I have a internal full time property manager so she deals with all this for me and I haven’t done this myself in a while so I’m sure I’m missing things.

We normally don’t buy investment condos since the cash on cash return is normally low due to the HOA fees but there is something to be said about not needing to worry about the exterior, heat, hot water, snow removal, or landscaping.