When you chose to make a counter offer you released the seller from the original purchase agreement.Assuming you have made a counter offer following the inspection this will make the original agreement null and void.

Pay off the HOA and have them release back to you. 

These items could be mortgages covering the entire development that should have been released as to individual lots upon their sale, judgment liens, assessments for water/sewer facilities, more.

The form will be found here once it's released, attaching your federal Schedule E and supporting schedules for the Cincinnati properties.

The listing agent will not release any financial info without a contract.

The listing agent will not release any financial info without a contract.

Wells Fargo was the Mortgage holder and sent me a long list of things I had to do in order for them to release it to me.The second thing I ran in to was most contractors want $150/sqft down here. 

You can track down the previous owner and give them some money in exchange for releasing all of their rights.

I have done it once and I won... but I also put up 40k and release it too the seller and they would not come to closing  and did not have the money to pay me back.. so I had no choice in the matter.another 2 years and 15k in legal fees and the only reason the legal fee's were that low the seller would never show to court or answer anything .. if the seller bows their back it can get real expensive.

Sure they than can refuse, but they may have an issue getting the EM released without your agreement.