If you get a tenant in the winter, try to lengthen the lease term beyond the standard year, so that it ends in the spring to early fall range.

You may want your agent to draft an addendum to lengthen the inspection period so you can research this more and get multiple quotes on fixing the problem.

If that wasnt enough, I would do owner financing, you can always lengthen the term or lower the interest rate to lower the total payment. 

I know that waiting for eviction will lengthen the process. 

If there is less competition, then it would be reasonable to lengthen your inspection period.

She actually only wanted to add a window in the w/c, weird but oh well, and subway tile as a backsplash instead of the glass tile we were going to use (which cheaper)contractor said it wouldn't cost us much and wouldn't lengthen the time to finish.

There's tricks that some people play to lengthen that time, but you're still never getting much more than a week on the outside before you're hard on EMD.

By way of indication that number used to be 4 years for FNMA, so they have lengthened the penalty for foreclosure.

When it is pumped, the pumping contractor can tell you if you might be able to lengthen the interval or if you should shorten it.  

As the time of tenancy lengthens, more furniture is likely to appear.