Hopefully he has also seen you deliver at work, and your willingness to roll up your sleeves and take on a task, without hesitation.many potential investors show up at meetups but fail to follow through or even have a plan.I'd suggest you take this further by developing a business plan and goal setting. 

If you rural setting lacks a leasing agent, give it a go with the suggested $13-14 rate.

Then activity dies down, but the those later applicants are often more qualified, and have just started looking.Your price may be right or slightly high, but if you set it too low, you'll attract more unwanted interest from unqualified potentials.

@Brendon Pishny I am an asset protection attorney and we set these up all the time for clients nationwide.

He told me that he promises to sell it to me for our agreed price once he clears out his items. lease with option to buy only last so long in Texas so not an optionSo what other options do I have that will hold up in a legal setting?

Each step has its own set of challenges. 

Everything happens for a reason, so this could set you up for an amazing ride.  

If they do, then to close on time you and the seller are very quickly going to have to agree to whatever the lender wants in exchange for being willing to doing an escrow holdback at all, which fancy language aside is basically ransom money in an amount greater than the estimated completion cost, to be released once it's complete (ransoms only work if the thing held ransom is worth more than the thing you want).

We are planning to close next week (before Thanksgiving) and need to properly set up LLCs asap.

@Robert Raspanti I have no set age requirement but I make sure to know the condition before making an offer.