You can make any arrangements you want regarding application review and the screening process.

Would you take the $195k as hard money (13%-15%) interest, arrange some sort of profit share on the back end when the house is sold or any other creative ways?

Maybe arrange an introduction, preferably at one of the houses they are currently working on so it minimizes any hassle for them.

Have you arranged for financing?

The tenant thought she was doing me a favor to arrange for the plumber, and I didn't stop her from making the call (I could have told her to cancel the visit so I could arrange for someone else instead, and I didn't do that).

That would include personal emails and travel arrangements for personal use, personal financial records for bank statements and tax returns plus a few other items related to charitable gift giving.

If you start making offers on short sales and REOs now, the odds are in your favor that you would close on one and be ready to move in at the end of April.If possible, you might want to try to arrange a month-to-month lease even now, but certainly when you lease ends in April.

If the lender is a large bank, the property will likely have to hit the MLS, but just arrange with the listing agent that it goes pending immediately and your offer is submitted to the bank.

Ed Lee@ed leeI got it done very reasonably because of an arrangement with my contractorbut what was purchased was about 60.00 worth of pvc fittings and pipe you need a drain pipe and supply linesyou need the washer dryer hookup boxesand a roll of electrical wire that handles 220 currentwe had to get 2 30 amp breakers one for each unitand dry wall and mud to repair what we ripped outand finally vent tubing I cant say exactly what all this cost but somewhere in the neighborhood of 350 but remember I was doing two units the labor was priced at 160 a day and it took three days to complete.so just under 900 to do both units

Even if they're not representing the seller/lender, there's nothing wrong with them determining that the contract isn't being fulfilled the way it was legally arranged, and therefore they want to protect *themselves* by ensuring that the contract reflects what's happening in real life.Also, the escrow company will now have more work (the loan package prep, signing and filing), and they may need to increase their fees, which *would* need to be approved by the lender.What I'm saying is, you're getting unnecessarily concerned at this point -- it's not unreasonable that the escrow company is asking for this and there's no reason to believe the lender will have an issue with it.I'm going to start stating "buyer reserves the right to purchase this property using non-contingent financing instead of cash" in all of my "cash only" offers from now on.I've put that in every offer I've made for the past 4 years.