Lay it flat and put a bunch of dowels between them then when it's lined up, start pulling out the dowels to make contact, and roll it down with a heavy roller (or a can of something) to keep it smooth and keep pulling out the dowels as you go. 

Whenever you are buying a property out of state you should do a few things to ensure it's as smooth as possible.

By the way, the more favorable lender was able to close almost a week earlier than anticipated.Everything went pretty smoothly from there.

Have been involved in multiple 1031s either as a CPA or an investor with him and it always goes smoothly.

By investing conservatively, in good middle class neighborhoods we never suffered much in losses and by not having loans our flexibility and ease of purchase (cash) and sales (seller financed) always went smoothly.

All tenants moved in May 1st and overall has been going smoothly sense.

So I try to keep things as smooth as possible. 

The county said it could go as fast as a few months if everything goes smoothly but we all all know it’s not likely 😄As far as expenses, I have an architect friend who has a past doing projects like this.

I did review schedule B exception of title  with my attorney in my last commercial deal (although it was general warranty deed). there were like almost 3 pages listed in schedule B on that one. although I don't quite remember what were the rationales my attorney explained, I do remember the conversation went fairly smooth basically being told those were all fairly standard and common exceptions he expected and nothing to concern with...the broker did say I can ask for general, but I'll get countered 100% with special by seller.

As long as the seller is timely with all of their paperwork for the bank, hopefully everything will go smoothly.