We put about $7,000 of our own money into redoing the transitions, repainting, touching up the tile work, casing the windows, trim work and closing up one wall and adding a built in bookcase to improve the flow of the house, along with completing the walkway from the driveway to the front door, so potential buyers didn’t have to walk through the wet grass to get to the front door.After doing all this, and re-listing the property at a 10% discount, we received 3 offers in less than a week, one of them cash.

i'm not saying that you should not be proud of where you are from, I'm from Ireland and French-Canadian, i'm very proud of my heritage, but please do not discount the distrust that Americans have for the Nigerian scams

Be aware of the acceleration clause in her mortgage.Offer to lease the property with an option to buy, give her an option payment or monthly option payments that apply to the balance (this represent a no interest loan)Buy it at a great discount and offer her a percentage of the net profits when the property is sold (after you force the appreciation) at an agreed time of 3-5 years.

These debt instruments can be purchased at a discount than the original loan on the property.

Lead was generated via direct mail to absentee owner, who called  me back showing some motivation to sell;b) Property is currently rented and lease term is March 2016;c) My offer will be all cash at discounted price (with option to assign the contract)....

Now I know nothing of that market it could be red hot for all I know.but smaller town markets tend to be slow movers and usually discounted purchase price from ask because there is so much to choose from.that's the basics

This means for every dollar of his lease payment, he gets a 50.88% discount and his true cost is only $0.4912 per dollar.

In ordinary circumstances I would discount a ten year mortgage completely, but with a premium of about 1% the question is basically whether you think mortgage rates are going to rise more than 2% from where they are now over the course of the next five years. 

If it's in the budget hire a cleaning service(contract with them for future services and get a discount).

Yeah, and the buyer discounts their offer by at least 1% to make up the difference.