for sure I understand the hold back to get the old owner to move out.I recently bought a MHP and the owner could not provide title to about 6 trailers.. so I withheld 10k and with unilateral escrow instructions to our title company ( we don't use lawyers in our area). but it does the same thing your talking about.. they never produced the titles and we got the 10k.. most of the trailers I hauled to the dump any waywith this rash of ones I bought this year it was a long story on each.. suffice it to say were talking MUCH bigger dollars than 50k.. and I wanted the deals.. trying to hold back could have meant they went shopping and I missed them.. each of these I am scraping the homes and building 3 to 4 new homes on each one.. with resale prices in the 600 to 1 mil range.. so no I am not going to dink around with a 5k hold back on a 2 to 3 million dollar project.. get the land OWN It then deal with it.having to evict and have our dough out for a few months is simply not enough money to even come close to worry about with these particular deals.if your buying 50k props I get it .. and I would do the same thing..

Paralysis by analysis can be a real problem, only outreached by acting rashly in my opinion.

The termites are in the crawl space, facial boards, scuttle.

I recommend not making emotional rash decisions (OMG don’t buy real estate or lend right now!)

Yes, its rash - hence I've not done it as everything in my business past was massaged, planned out, to a fault.On a unit like that my inexperienced self tells me that the 50-60k is right on....and I'd assume new roof, new HVAC is needed (I drove by it).    

Glad I didn't make any hasty, rash decisions. 

I'd put it $800,000+ in an irrevocable trust for five years at 2% interest and spend time studying, reflecting, learning and listening before making any rash decisions.

I think some folks here jumped to rash conclusions for some reason by saying that rentals are a no go, plain and simple..... when is anything plain and simple?

Any sort of service that targets people who make rash decisions out of emotional desperation is often looked at as predatory.

I personally like to speak to someone face-to-face so I can read their facial expressions and body language when talking to them.