@Scott Pillsbury There is Very Specific language in your contract detailing your financing contingency, timelines, what happens at certain dates, seller and buyer choices and requirements, etc.  

@Sarah W AdlerCheck out apartments.comMay suite your needs perfectly.

FASB allows for a choice of either but it is very difficult for public companies to change from FIFO to LIFO or LIFO to FIFO.

If so, is my choice then only to do offline one-time payments through Zelle/Venmo/Paypal, etc?

Seller agent offering 4% to the buyer agent to begin with, wow...Anyway, at the end of the day the choice for the buyer agent is to either take $11k on a likely successful closing, or take zero because you can't meet the new bid price and he has to start over again to find you a new deal. 

You will get a link to watch latter for  a few days.But don't get paralyzed by a desire for perfect information. 

A STR could be the perfect way to get started, as it was for me.

You have two choices, demo the entire lid and add new drywall or get a good drywall crew to skim coat the entire ceiling.

Like with any choice, there are trade offs. 

@Stacy Parkelj, my first choice always for purchasing vacation rentals has always been - places i like to vacation :) !!!