But you have to do what you need to do to advance the ball, sometimes regardless of what the outcome COULD be.

------------------When you begin purchasing properties, for the purpose of holding, if you think you will go FHA, Conventional, 203k, etc. and then Quit Claim the property, to a LLC, or a Land Trust you run the risk of the lender discovering a Title Transfer occurred and activating the "Acceleration Clause" or "Due on Sale Clause" that requires the loan to be paid in full, within 'x' number of days.

The house would be an eventual teardown, land prices alone are 150-200k and rising. 

You definitely wouldn't want any of that stuff landing in a tenant's hands anyway. 

I'm committed and ready to get the ball rolling.

so David after the 180 days lease option. can you still do land contract for period of 18 months and that will count towards the purchase price ? 

I purchased this on land contract and spent about $20K on repairs.

Also, thank you for your Service of the Greatest Land of Opportunity!!!  

So it shouldn't be too difficult to get him to play ball as long as you let him know you're not wasting his time and gives him business for the deals that will work.

I think you are asking them to low ball the offer or use it as leverage against you to add things to their liking.