Dear BP Family,  Here comes another encounter of LL/Tenant question for the experienced Landlords out there. 

You can even use it to land a mentor if you connect with someone in your area and offer them a majority split (like 60/40) in return for helping you through the parts you're unsure on.

But, he's been there more than 20 years and is a bit of a hoarder, so he has a lot of inertia to redirect.I'd like to come up with a win-win, but it'll be hard to make it look like something other than a greedy landlord kicking out his sick tenant.

Try focusing on sellers that are motivated to sell but not in desperate need of cash.For example, a seller that is facing imminent foreclosure is definitely going to want to close ASAP and will want as much cash as they can get for the deal, and will be enticed by the guarantee of $2000 (or whatever) no matter what happens with your deal.On the other hand, a seller that wants to offload their rental property because they're tired of being a landlord will want to sell, but won't likely be dealing with a time crunch, so they'll be more flexible with both the closing date and the EMD. 

Yet, I do not see any sign of it "pending" on any public records, and wonder if the listing agent is playing games and/or will not do business with me due to currently being a tenant who is in litigation of suing that company and my landlord.

Did all these "investors" just attend a Real Estate seminar and get all hot to trot to buying into the miserable life of a landlord?

However, in order to initiate a "rent strike" and not pay rent, at least in Texas, there are specific notification and response windows that have to be met (by the tenant) and failed (by the landlord) before the tenant can take any of this action.If you have your requests and invoices for the efforts to remedy the situations, if the issues named were never reported, and If the report appears retaliatory in intent, you're probably in good shape.

What area of West - New York did you land?

It was a great way for me to break into the landlord business while leaving cheap!

I have know of other landlords who have done it and the word back from their tenants is -thanks for spending our own money to buy us a "kiss up" gift.