@Daniel Haberkost This is very encouraging to hear, thank you for sharing that.

I encourage you to read it... and then I encourage you to mandate all your applicants fill out an app with petscreening.com.

Land gives you multiple exit strategies with no improvements (and I would encourage you to avoid doing improvements).

Pending sales growth is the first sign of recovery, so the strong gains in May pending home sales throughout the MSA is encouraging.

I appreciate the encouragement. 

But I do think like you have leverage here by having the Memorandum of Agreement recorded.I would kindly encourage her to compensate you for the earnest money, your time and the probate attorney fees.

From the responses to this thread already, it seems that there are still great opportunities for me to house hack in SD, which is really encouraging. 

I would encourage you to cut your losses and use this as a painful lesson learned.

My encouragement is to listen to some of the podcasts and learn how others started out.

Thank you for your encouragement for my first post:) I really like your second point.