To get a winning offer as a buyer, you pretty much have to come in non-contingent and that includes the financing.

Good stuff on how to negotiate win-win solutions.

Its a great bonus to have the light on a switch and the fan on the switch vs using the pull chains, but you still have use the chains for the fan speed.

I'd love to start a relationship with investors in St.Louis where i bird-dog properties and we create a win-win for both of us.

good points, and you can use them, transfer them... good sign on and use bonus too.

It is a niche you can promote in many ways on social media and should be a win for you.  

I see one negative in that you don't get immediate gratification of the deal, but if you are in it to win it this seems like a good strategy to partner.  

I can relate ... and as an added bonus, it is a motivator for going to college too, because you figure out very quickly that you sure as heck don't want to be a painter, or trash collector, or cleaner for a living :)

We'll have to work out how to determine the pre-rehab value and how to split the margin, but it seems like a good way for a win win.  

You will lose the N4/L1 and the $170, you will win the L9 and the tenant will pay you the $170.