This should be interesting to see how this one plays out...here is the link to the article:Click here

This should be interesting to see how this plays out, below is the link for the article:Article

There are definitely other factors at play with your deal that I'm not experienced enough to comment on - but thought I'd chime in in the area I do know about. 

Homes are always coming on the market, there is always a turn over of inventory regardless of economic times or who is playing.

I doubt the seller is playing games with you, she probably has too much on her plate to handle.

Numbers play a huge factor in determining, what's on the table.

So, I recently sent my first yellow letters campaign to absentee owners and I'm only getting calls from investor and landlords who are not motivated to sell but the want to play the game only to see how much I offer and then say they're investors and they won't sale for that price, bla bla bla.

To answer your question (i dont mind) yes it is family money, My parents arnt "rich" but it is money my father uses to play stocks with so he is perfectly aware of the risk and is interested in real estate but just never got around to it.

I do a variation of lending and JV deals in 11 states..

What he fails to understand, and so many others like him who see these TV shows or hear stories through the grapevine is that in a lot of those cases, the individuals involved in the role of being a landlord are more or less placed into that position out of necessity - what I like to call "playing" landlord.