If you have kept to your end of the deal you should be fine...you may even have a case to retain your earnest money.Additoinally, check with the county and see if you can't drum up a final Bills Paid Affidavit that states that the contractor has been paid in full for the work done....The other problem you will encounter, is that while you may not find any paper on your lot specifically, some counties, halt the deed transfer over the entire original abstract even before it is broken out to the buyer...so you may be looking at the wrong ownership table.Hint: contractors for subdivisions are too lazy to file leins over each individual lot, so therefore they tag the entire boundary.

I'm sure the lawyers have been through these arrangements inside and out, however, I would view that agent as being in an agency relationship with that attorney as the agent is drumming up business for them.

The property is cheap enough but I am concerned with buried stuff if it turns out to be buried drums of waste oil could get expensive to clean up.

When a Realtor runs ads just about thier services, it is usually because they don't have listings to run, some might, but I doubt you'll see a personal ad by a Realtor in a community who is successful and been around twenty years, I never have.Now, I'm retired, I can sit here for an hour if I like, or all day, but if someone in business is not tending to business chatting away or drumming up business, that too is an indication I'd think.

The neighborhood NNO party is in a park a mile away, but I may try to drum up a last minute get together for people on the block.

Additionally the Army is cutting about $400 million in construction projects.http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/25/us-usa-army-idUSBRE95O1IR20130625 These cuts are spread out between 11 bases across the country; Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington, Fort Carson in Colorado, Fort Riley in Kansas, Fort Bliss and Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Polk in Louisiana, Fort Stewart in Georgia, Fort Campbell and Fort Knox in Kentucky, Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Drum in New York.

If I believed the logic put forth by the Author of Aftershock or others like him that have been banging the same drum for years I would have missed many opportunities and be no where as near strong and have near the growth as I do at this point.

Outside of work, some of my hobbies include golfing, fishing, and playing the drums.

Btw, while you can use an FSBO sign to drum up interest, I would think twice before letting prospective buyers see the house prior to rehab being complete.

Before using a drum sander should I use some type of paint remover to get most of the paint off?