I was well aware that most insured don't have the knowledge to push back against an adverse party who may not themselves be aware of the law.I hope this helps.

I just found the perfect adverse possession home, dead owner, no heirs, no bank but was too late and owed way to much in taxes and interest to bring current without a title. 

There is one other transactional party that is also unintentionally adversely effected: Sellers.

The worst ones usually don't have any clear cut guidelines (a lot of the underwriters will make up their own rules if they do not like the deal), Suck at communicating (will reply days later), Push aggressive terms to get deals in and then switch them, and Not really motivated to get things done (they will adverse a loan without any hesitation). 

When things are arms-length, the taxable amount is generally the exact commission amount as the buyer's agent, buyer, seller, and the listing agent all have adverse economic interests.Again, it's a facts and circumstances based analysis at the end of the day. 

@w phillpots, as a newbie, which I consider myself 19 months into investing, but not new to entrepreneurship, you have to understand quickly that a lot of people won't embrace your newbie status into this space, especially when you come with a mindset of leveraging technology, automation, and anything online related to conduct business that's adverse to that archaic models that didn't allow space for everyone to succeed, let alone participate in.

I've always been gun shy to look at properties with tenants already in place because it has felt risky to me (admittedly I'm a fairly risk adverse buy and hold investor!).

I found it extremely inspiring how you overcame adversity and managed to figure out a way how to make this work!

As mentioned everyone's strategy is different, I'm risk adverse & enjoy liquidity.

It ain't over till the curvy lady sings :-)Sue,  prescriptive rights and adverse possession are very tough things to prove and take years.. and you normally have to pay the tax's on the disputed property which most don't do. for a title company to insure the boundary's he would have had to buy and ALTA policy and most just use a CLTA which does not provide for boundary accuracy..