If you buy at 373k, you're probably paying around 2,200 a month in mortgage.

Currently have tenants and paying monthly consistently.

If you are buying site unseen make sure to extensively use google maps and get a good idea of what the neighborhood looks like.

In the future, do a court records search at https://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/casesearch/If you had done that, you would have seen they have 8 failure to pay rent cases against them.

FYI: none of the sites listed above know the condition of the property.

The tenant proactively requested help in paying their rent2. 

Many times the tenant would not pay their portion of the rent on time if at all.  

… $1.2MWith head shaking, I responded that he didn’t just buy a $1.2M property from an old woman who was unable to pay her taxes for $80k.

If you have more time than money, this is the free way to do it.If you value your time, then use one of the paid sites, like flsonline, foreclosures daily, or a host of other data providers. 

Seller is paying $5,000 of closing costs and a $5000 credit towards a contractor for repairs found during inspection.Here is the part that is bothering me...