Also, if the lot rent (lot rent only) at competing parks is lower than $200 per month, the park could simply be in a low demand area.  

So, initially the goal was simply to earn returns outside of Wall Street.

@Jared Wilson The situation you described as your direct personal experience on the topic was not a break in the chain at all, but simply the existence of a quitclaim deed in the chain. 

We than did the average ARV formula , simply adding up similar comps sold prices and dividing by number of similar comps and got an ARV of 154k!

Unless the company filed a lawsuit, which you haven't mentioned, they no longer have any interest in the property.If they recorded a lis pendens without filing a law suit the penalty against would let her retire in comfort.If they fraudulently filed a lien of some sort but you haven't indicated anything of that nature, again their penalty would be a nice windfall for her.If . . . she thinks that because they had a purchase and sale agreement from some long ago time, she is simply showing that she doesn't understand how things work.Make your offer, open title and escrow, and I'm sure the whole transaction will go smoothly.A title report will reveal anything of concern and a report is usually $50 to $100.

She simply said kill the deal and re listed the property right away.

Speaking as one who has a decade and ~100 appeals under my belt...anticipate:1) Get ready for a debate when you appear in front of the review committee, previously we simply accessed sales on the MLS and the Recorder's office...we were told last night to plan to provide closing documents a week ahead of the session.

As someone above mentioned, time is money and right now an agent is able to choose with whom they work and if you simply want to buy ONE value add property, they aren't really incentivized to work hard at that and likely are going to send those kinds of deals to their serial investors first because they know they can close and they know they will get continued business from them.

I GC myself for the extra income and to have more control over the timelines and quality of my projects, but I do envision a day where I simply hire out all my projects and focus on continually finding bigger and better deals instead of getting bogged down in the minutia of GC'ing. 

I looked for cash flow so I could live and breathe and enjoy life instead of doing fix & flips which is simply another job.