What I can show in exchange, is that nobody ever loses their shirt here when the downturns come for most every other market.

Wants to get rid of it but wants to do it collaboratively with a flipper so he doesn't lose his shirt on the property.2) Seller is well to do and has hung on to his property in a really nice part of town for the last 7 years.  

I also have date stamp pictures from today (5-8-14) showing all the work that needs to still be done.I have been told that if I were to fire him the contractor can file a mechanics lien for the last $5500, which does not make sense to me since he is well past his deadline and there is more than $5500 worth of work left.

If you try to rehab a house COLD without a well-connected G.C. you will LOSE YOUR SHIRT.

This house is located in blue collar shirt area.

He had to put on a dress shirt, so I guess he was worried :) Anyway, he said that they gave him a very stern warning.

This takes the priority given explicitly by the recorder's time stamp to be that of what is contained in the instrument while perfecting the same.

So my question is; regarding a wholesale deal, am I only running a title search on the property or am I doing the whole stamp and transfer side of it?

I think maybe you might spend a few months reading blogs and forums, and listening to podcasts, before you try to do a deal.I think it's not that anyone thinks you won't do a deal this summer, it is more that without information and education, you could do a deal and lose your shirt.

At the very least, yellow letters cost the price of a stamp per letter multiplied by hundreds of letters each week/month.