Most sellers that are open to selling you a deal off-market are just like I was with my rentals: the way to motivate them to sell is to give them a price HIGHER than they think they can get on the market.  

These are multiple assets of all sorts of things, retail, houses, condos, office. 

Yes, if you had granite, you will be able to replace with granite so long as you have any sort of replacement cost policy.  

An umbrella has nothing to do with those circumstances.I think some people hear umbrella and assume it's some sort of magical insurance that will protect them if anything goes wrong. 

Presumably because the overall majority of BP members invest only and the US and they're smart and well educated and can tell when people are trying to genuinely help them or are motivated by trying to get business from them.2.

In the end, people rely on internet for all sorts of things and you want that to be reliable.

@William Taylor so many options...Use your RE knowledge to: WholesaleFind rental deals to sell to investors locally or here on BPStart leveraging your personal contacts to build your sales businessFind a motivated seller willing to do seller financing:- Move in worst room or basement, rent out all the other rooms for max cashflow- You could even live in the basement and STR the rest of the house

Ultimately it was sorted because I clarified they legally had a joint responsibility to pay the total rent and there wasn't even an option for "half" the renters to pay late.

I'm still looking for my first property and I have a lead, sort of.

Half the states do not even require any type of Disclosure whatsoever.But as sort of a baseline, damage that has been repaired does not need to be disclosed in most states.