The agreement they knew prior to moving in was that I pay the bills, and after properly splitting the bills, I add that onto schedulemyrent platform, and they can pay for that just like they are paying rent. 

I would say best case is that given political climate, those in control of economic directions take a step back from all political influence as it poses a no-win scenario, and heavily relies upon guidance, direction and leadership from economic/finance professionals to a degree much more significant degree than prior.

The 1st month rent needs to then be paid 72 hours prior to lease start date.

Three days prior to close, FHA stated that since the home was moved twice, it was disqualified for FHA funding.

I later heard but never exactly why, that the place was an absolute money pit and the buyer, who was very experienced, regretted buying it big time.It is interesting, but I ALWAYS do at least a bit of research on the prior owners and have found few "hard luck" stories, at least as far as either higher or high priced single fams go, they're by far the same story where the owner makes the financial decision to walk away, mainly due to the insane HELOC's etc they were giving out, like 125% of home's current value back in like 2006, so now they'll owe literally like $750k on a home that IF in great shape would at best fetch $500k, PLUS they trashed or semi-trashed the place, so they'd be really lucky to get $400k as is and often they may be business owners or whatever and have a relationship with a local bank who will then know "the whole story" behind the big hit they take to their credit score and not treat it nearly as harshly as the average Joe, who's practically banned from even entering the bank for years!

As part of the renovation, all of these were remedied however the violations were not cleared as I suspect the renos were done without the full permitting.The purchase agreement had a requirement to clear the violations prior to sale but the Seller and I agreed a fairly substantial seller credit to clear the violations as it was recognized there were risks around the renovation work and potential non compliance with permits that I may have to remedy.

We personally require proof of utilities being transferred prior to handing over the keys I haven't yet kept anything in my name - I think if there wasn't separate utilities you may have to go that route.

If you don't know how to research, try locating a HUD office to see if they can help.I send it via email because I like to include move-out instructions. 

Prior to that I worked for a company that owned a 1,000 MF units across 7 properties. 

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