How bout wholesaling it for cash? Are you second guessing everything, fearful, hesitant and on and on?Haha, I'm glad I don't have to go thru the newbie experience again. It was horrible, terrifying, I think a lot of people never make it to square one because of the fear. What are you going to do?
No you don't. You need to get it under contract and sell it. Your contract has an escape clause.
Take a stab at it, ur spear don't need to be sharp, You can club it to death.OK, half of zestimate, deduct 20K for repairs and $5,000 for your fee. Then if he's ready to talk, sharpen the spear, go for the kill, negotiate him down some more because his dog is ugly. leave no witnesses.
As a side note they can actually pay you the earnest money.