Clear title means that there no other claims upon the title interests of record owners, such as mortgages, tax liens, judgments and defects in the recorded chain of ownership.It make look like a little thing to you but may mean your title includes lots of attached baggage, like undisclosed debts, liens, lawsuits and even brownfield issues (hazardous substances).I hated title research when I started many years ago but came to learn how to make money from the mistakes and oversights  by others.

I just wanted to see if anyone had any input of substance rather than trolling someones post. 

You are the one now in possession of an illegal substance. 

If it is coded in a black substance then there is a good possibility you have Chinese drywall.

(They want to be able to have parties, smoke quasi legal substances, they want to have bbqs and a backyard to call their own etc) Also believe it or not some are still price sensitive (if they don't have an unlimited student loan or bank of mom&dad).My 3 Fanshawe rentals are all in this neighbourhood.

Performing energy efficiency retrofits of our properties is core to our operating principals, so we try to utilize these programs when available (even if the program is more show than substance).

The property manager told her, professionally in my opinion, that since there was no oil or other sort of disfiguring substance present, that wasn't something they were going to do.

In the future, I will probably set up an LLC and use that to hold these, which would reduce the audit risk (even though it is the same business and form over substance) and then elect S corp taxation so not all of it will be passed through as social security/Medicare wages.

More recently (not sure exactly when), they expanded their scope "to serve those managing a mental illness and substance abuse, in addition to those living with HIV/AIDS."

That is a different (and very good) application of a different strategy I use (teach) that I refer to as using a "cash like substance"...