If people can successfully have strangers come into your furnished house and sleepover = Airbnb, you can have strangers come into your empty house for a few minutes, imo) Collecting rent, requesting maintenance (except if it's an emergency), filling applications will done online only.Virtual office (depending on the regulations, a physical office maybe required.)  

(This inspection was strictly an administrative evaluation of the property.)

Have you studied your state landlord tennat regulations.

In many areas of the country, those preforeclosure contacts also subject you to the label of "foreclosure consultant", which my subject you to licensure and regulation and being ignorant of that, will not provide a defense or protection if it doesn't work out for you and the homeowner.

I then said that we were holding firm to the lower offer and they took it.Okay so question is: Is there some stupid regulation that makes it advantageous for them to actually get less money for the asset by not offering a closing cost credit?

Those regulations on public water and sewer systems will kill you,,,and result in a closed down park.

Few will do OO loans, which are much more highly regulated.

I'd check the laws in your state regarding prepaid rent, because every state has their own regulations on such things.

Some are strictly spec home builders with few optional changes and others are more like custom home builders allowing major changes to be reviewed for approval.

K. marie P.I certainly did not mean to imply that there should be more regulations I was simply pointing out that in other markets (including parts of the real estate market such as lending) it exists because at some point it was determined (rightly or wrongly) that certain parties needed protection and that at times blame also needed to be placed at the selling parties door.