You have to score a cheap foreclosure, but there are so many investors right now you have to fight for those. 

Some say it is a lien to be paid by the bank, and others say it's a gray area and they can fight back and say no you bought the property as is. 

Nowadays, it's often easier to give a slight credit to a customer than it is to fight with them and then have them post negative information about you and your business online. 

Anyway, I have no dog in this fight. 

It’s possible it was sub-par and had a crack already running through it.If you really want to fight it, you’d have to hire an engineer to look at the beam and determine if it was flawed as well as how much force it would take to break it.

I’m following this closely because I’m on a group chat with Airbnb hosts who are fighting it(I’m not currently a host but may want to be in the future) They are probably gonna lose.

After not wanting to fight, I told her to deduct the 500 deductible from this months rent and that she will have to leave by the end of March and she agreed. 

if you want them out to renovate, I don’t see any need to extend another month and start a fight over maybe 1 day notice.

Cancellation of your current escrow will require signed cancellation instructions from both buyer and seller or that deposit will just sit there in an open escrow for years potentially while the parties fight it out and neither party will have use of it.

No matter what the law reads how much money do you want to waste fighting law suits no matter how frivolous they may be?