Usually people get in trouble (and come her on BP to get feedback) trying to use wacky ideas of how to circumvent the OO period to just buy property cheaper.It doesn't sound like that is your intent, but unfortunately others doing that gives the process a bad name and are the reason there are mortgage fraud investigations in the first place.

Be sure to check with the licensing authority (DOS in New York) and investigate all court cases that involve the property manager and the principal broker.

You might investigate a small business loan, they have some government subsidies in many cases that can lower your interest rate.

Your spouse doesn't have to know about it or participate in the process.Whether or not he WILL find out depends on how good his divorce attorney and personal investigators are.Rick

When you're running a quick 50% analysis as a preliminary calculation, does this 50% include the 35% mentioned above?

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The deal we are pursuing at the moment is private, hence we have been doing all of the preliminary work with CMHC on our own to determine if we qualify.

@Kathy Armstrong How do you investigate this type of situation regarding unpaid HOA dues?

But Making the drive to the recording office and doing a title search on potential properties seems like the method of last resort.Realtors sometimes get free preliminary reports from title companies in return for a steady flow of sales from the realtor.

I thought I did a pretty good job of estimating the conservative value.Did I just make a huge mistake and should I walk away, or do I need to investigate these numbers futher and see why they are so different than what the seller's agent originally represented?