The homes that aren't selling around here are being rented out instead. Owners want suitable tenants who will pay the rent, are clean and won't wreck the place. Exactly, as Spotted just said, all they can say is no, what have you got to lose, if you really love and want this place. If I really want something, I'll try to figure out how to get it. Sometimes you just have to be ballsy..... Give it a shot.